Matthew 20:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁶ Then at about five   he went and found others standing around   and said to them, “Why have you been standing here all day doing nothing? ”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ And about the eleventh hour (five o'clock) he went out and found still others standing around, and said to them, Why do you stand here idle all day?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing; and he saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

Common English Bible

⁶ Around five in the afternoon he went and found others standing around, and he said to them, ‘Why are you just standing around here doing nothing all day long?’

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Yet truly, about the eleventh hour, he went out and found others standing, and he said to them, 'Why have you stood here idle all day?'

Matthew 20:6 Cross References

Proverbs 19:15

Laziness induces deep sleep, and a lazy person will go hungry.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hands find to do, do with all your strength,  because there is no work, planning, knowledge, or wisdom  in Sheol where you are going.

Ezekiel 16:49

Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters had pride, plenty of food,  and comfortable security, but didn’t support  the poor and needy.

Matthew 20:5

At about noon and about three,   he went out again and did the same thing.

Matthew 20:7

‘ “Because no one hired us,” they said to him. ‘ “You also go into my vineyard,” he told them.

Matthew 20:9

‘When those who were hired at about five came, they each received one denarius.

John 9:4

We   must do the works   of him who sent me   while it is day.   Night is coming when no one can work.

Acts 17:21

Now all the Athenians and the foreigners residing there spent their time on nothing else but telling or hearing something new.

Hebrews 6:12

so that you won’t become lazy but will be imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and perseverance.