Proverbs 20:4
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Cross-reference
Proverbs 6:10 warns that a little rest leads to poverty — the same consequence as the sluggard who does not plow.
Proverbs 6:11 completes the warning: poverty arrives like a robber — echoing the harvest loss in the main verse.
Proverbs 10:4 generalizes the laziness-poverty link: slack hand brings poverty, just as the sluggard's failure to plow yields nothing.
Proverbs 19:15 states sloth brings deep sleep and hunger — matching the sluggard's harvest failure in the main verse.
Proverbs 19:24 shows the sluggard too lazy to feed himself — a vivid parallel to the self-defeating inertia of not plowing.
Proverbs 24:34 repeats the same warning from 6:11 — poverty comes like a robber to the lazy who neglect work.
Proverbs 26:13-16 piles up sluggard traits (lion, door hinge) — amplifying the same character flaw behind missing plowing time.
Proverbs 6:6 directly calls the sluggard to learn from the ant's industry — reinforcing the same warning against laziness.
Proverbs 21:25 states the sluggard's desire kills him because he refuses to work — the same fatal consequence of laziness.
Proverbs 24:31 describes the sluggard's overgrown field — a vivid picture of neglect that leads to empty harvest.
Ecclesiastes 4:5 depicts the fool folding his hands in idleness — echoing the sluggard's refusal to plow.
Ecclesiastes 10:18 notes that sloth causes decay — like the sluggard's unplowed field leads to no harvest.
2 Thessalonians 3:10 commands that the unwilling worker should not eat — directly matching the proverb's principle of no work, no harvest.
Ecclesiastes 11:4 warns that waiting for perfect conditions prevents sowing — similar to the sluggard's failure, but from caution rather than laziness.
In 2 Peter 1:5-11, adding virtue to faith ensures fruitfulness — contrasting the sluggard who neglects effort and ends with nothing.