Matthew 20:6 - Revised Version 1885

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?

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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 casteth into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

Ezekiel 16:49

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom; pride, fulness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Matthew 20:5

Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise.

Matthew 20:7

They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard.

Matthew 20:9

And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.

John 9:4

We must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

Acts 17:21

(Now all the Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.)

Hebrews 6:12

that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.