Through sloth the roof sinks in, and through indolence the house leaks.
The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.
I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man lacking sense, and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. Then I saw and considered it; I looked and received instruction. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.
The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.
And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end,
for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.
The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.
For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins.
The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.
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