Matthew 20:6

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?

Cross References

Proverbs 19:15

Slothfulness casts one into a deep sleep, and the idle person shall suffer hunger.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol (the place of the dead), where you are going.

Ezekiel 16:49

Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, overabundance of food, prosperous ease, and idleness were hers and her daughters'; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Matthew 20:5

He went out again about the sixth hour (noon), and the ninth hour (three o'clock) he did the same.

Matthew 20:7

They answered him, Because nobody has hired us. He told them, You go out into the vineyard also and you will get whatever is just and fair.

Matthew 20:9

And those who had been hired at the eleventh hour (five o'clock) came and received a denarius each.

John 9:4

We must work the works of Him Who sent Me and be busy with His business while it is daylight; night is coming on, when no man can work.

Acts 17:21

For the Athenians, all of them, and the foreign residents and visitors among them spent all their leisure time in nothing except telling or hearing something newer than the last–

Hebrews 6:12

In order that you may not grow disinterested and become [spiritual] sluggards, but imitators, behaving as do those who through faith (by their leaning of the entire personality on God in Christ in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness) and by practice of patient endurance and waiting are [now] inheriting the promises.