Matthew 20:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 And about five o’clock he went out and found others standing around, and he said to them, ‘Why are you standing here idle all day?’ More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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?' Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and he saith to them: Why stand you here all the day idle? |
Whatever your hand finds to do, do with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease but did not aid the poor and needy.
When he went out again about noon and about three o’clock, he did the same.
They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard.’
When those hired about five o’clock came, each of them received a denarius.
We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.
Now all the Athenians and the foreigners living there would spend their time in nothing but telling or hearing something new.
so that you may not become sluggish but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.