Many Troubles come for being IDLE:

**The Bible is clear that God hates idleness. Honest WORK is a mark of obedience and glorifies Him***

“Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before.” 1 Thessalonians 4:11, NLT

–Matt 12:36 , Eph 5:3, 1 Peter 3:10

“Like one who grabs a dog by the ears [and is likely to be bitten] Is he who, passing by, stops to meddle with a dispute that is none of his business.”

Proverbs 26:17 AMP

This includes taking advantage of others goodwill & wanting Free things:

“Don’t visit your neighbors too often, or you will wear out your welcome.” Proverbs 25:17, NLT

Diligent people appreciate others efforts:

” For you know that you ought to imitate us. We were not idle when we were with you. We never accepted food from anyone without paying for it. We worked hard day and night so we would not be a burden to any of you. 2 Thessalonians 3:7‭-‬8 NLT

Ecclesiastes 10:18 gives a graphic description of the results of idleness: “Through laziness, the rafters sag; because of idle hands, the house leaks.” Idleness is the opposite of diligence, which the Bible often commends (Proverbs 12:24; 13:4; Romans 12:11; Ephesians 4:28).

Proverbs 20:13 Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.

Proverbs 24:30-34 I walked by the field of a certain lazy fellow and saw that it was overgrown with thorns; it was covered with weeds, and its walls were broken down.

People who were idle:

– David = Bathsheba

– Samson = Delilah

– Matthew 12:36 (ESV) I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,

Ephesians 5:4 gives a partial list of idle speech: “Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving.” Idle speech is that which would most likely not be said in the physical presence of Jesus

First Timothy 6:20 also tells us we are to avoid “godless chatter and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge.” So not only are we to eliminate our own idle speech, but we are to turn away from the foolish talk of others

Diligence:

As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work” (John 9:4).

1 Cor 15: 58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

Luke 10:2 And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.

Acts 9:36 Now there was in Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which, translated, means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity.