Matthew 20:6 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁶ And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing; and he said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’

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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?'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ 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?

Matthew 20:6 Cross References

Proverbs 19:15

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

Ezekiel 16:49

Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, surfeit of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.

Matthew 20:5

Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same.

Matthew 20:7

They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too.’

Matthew 20:9

And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius.

John 9:4

We must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day; night comes, when no one can work.

Acts 17:21

Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.

Hebrews 6:12

so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.