Bible Verses About Waste
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for waste, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 454 votes, led by John 6:12. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Waste
John 6:12170 votes
When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
Ezekiel 16:4975 votes
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Leviticus 23:2236 votes
And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the Lord your God.
Proverbs 18:936 votes
He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
Proverbs 12:2732 votes
The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.
Proverbs 13:2326 votes
Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
Deuteronomy 24:1922 votes
When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
Genesis 1:2813 votes
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Mark 14:3-513 votes
And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
Isaiah 54:1611 votes
Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
Numbers 35:3310 votes
So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Proverbs 4:2-310 votes
For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
What does the Bible say about waste?
Readers most often cite John 6:12 on the subject of waste. Across 454 votes, 12 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ezekiel 16:49, Leviticus 23:22, Proverbs 18:9. This page lists all 12 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.