Matthew 20:6

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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?

Cross References

Hebrews 6:12

That you become not slothful, but followers of them, who through faith and patience shall inherit the promises.

John 9:4

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

Acts 17:21

(Now all the Athenians, and strangers that were there, employed themselves in nothing else, but either in telling or in hearing some new thing.)

Proverbs 19:15

Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Ezekiel 16:49

Behold, this was the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, pride, fulness of bread and abundance, and the idleness of her and of her daughters: and they did not put forth their hand to the needy and to the poor.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.

Matthew 20:5

And they went their way. And again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did in like manner.

Matthew 20:7

They say to him: Because no man hath hired us. He saith to them: Go you also into my vineyard.

Matthew 20:9

When therefore they were come, that came about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.