Matthew 20:6 - Tree of Life Version

⁶ And about the eleventh hour, he went out and found others standing around. And he said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here idle the whole 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

Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will starve.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do with all your strength, for there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, where you are going.

Ezekiel 16:49

Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, gluttony, and careless ease—so had she and her daughters—and she did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Matthew 20:5

So they went. Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour and did the same.

Matthew 20:7

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

Matthew 20:9

And those who had come about the eleventh hour each received a denarius.

John 9:4

We must do the work of the One who sent Me, so long as it is day! Night is coming when no one can work.

Acts 17:21

Now all the Athenians and foreigners visiting there used to pass their time doing nothing but telling or hearing something new.

Hebrews 6:12

so you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those inheriting the promises through trust and perseverance.