Matthew 20:6

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?'

Cross References

Proverbs 19:15

Laziness sends one into a deep sleep, and a dissolute soul will go hungry.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand is able to do, do it earnestly. For neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge will exist in death, toward which you are hurrying.

Ezekiel 16:49

Behold, this was the iniquity of Sodom, your sister: arrogance, indulgence in bread and abundance, and the idleness of her and her daughters; and they did not reach out their hand to the needy and the poor.

Matthew 20:5

So they went forth. But again, he went out about the sixth, and about the ninth hour, and he acted similarly.

Matthew 20:7

They say to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' He said to them, 'You also may go into my vineyard.'

Matthew 20:9

And so, when those who had arrived about the eleventh hour came forward, each received a single denarius.

John 9:4

I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day: the night is coming, when no one is able to work.

Acts 17:21

(Now all the Athenians, and arriving visitors, were occupying themselves with nothing other than speaking or hearing various new ideas.)

Hebrews 6:12

so that you may not be slow to act, but instead may be imitators of those who, through faith and patience, shall inherit the promises.