Matthew 20:6

Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition

Finally, about five in the afternoon the man went back and found some others standing there. He asked them, “Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?”

Cross References

Hebrews 6:12

Then you would never be lazy. You would be following the example of those who had faith and were patient until God kept his promise to them.

John 9:4

As long as it is day, we must do what the one who sent me wants me to do. When night comes, no one can work.

Acts 17:21

More than anything else the people of Athens and the foreigners living there loved to hear and to talk about anything new.

Proverbs 19:15

If you are lazy and sleep your time away, you will starve.

Ezekiel 16:49

They were arrogant and spoiled; they had everything they needed and still refused to help the poor and needy.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Work hard at whatever you do. You will soon go to the world of the dead, where no one works or thinks or reasons or even knows anything.

Matthew 20:5

So they went. At noon and again about three in the afternoon he returned to the market. And each time he made the same agreement with others who were loafing around with nothing to do.

Matthew 20:7

“Because no one has hired us,” they answered. Then he told them to go work in his vineyard.

Matthew 20:9

When the workers arrived, the ones who had been hired at five in the afternoon were given a full day's pay.