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Matthew 20:6

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At 5 p.m. he went out and found others standing there. ‘Why are you standing around all day doing nothing?’ he asked them.

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Lazy people are often fast asleep, but idleness means they're hungry.

Whatever you do, do it with all your strength, for when you go to the grave there's no more working or thinking, no more knowing or being wise.

The sins of your sister Sodom were these: She and her daughters were proud, greedy, and lazy. They didn't help the poor and those in need.

So they went to work. Around noon and 3 p.m. he went out and did the same thing.

‘Because nobody has hired us,’ they replied. ‘Go and work in the vineyard too,’ he told them.

When those who were hired at 5 p.m. came in, they each received one denarius.

we have to keep on doing the work of the one who sent me as long as it is still daytime. The night is coming when no one can work.

(All the Athenians, including foreigners who lived there, spent their whole time doing nothing except explaining or listening to something new.)

Don't be spiritually lazy, but follow the example of those who through trusting in God and patience inherit what God has promised.