Matthew 20:6

Good News Translation (US Version)

It was nearly five o'clock when he went to the marketplace and saw some other men still standing there. ‘Why are you wasting the whole day here doing nothing?’ he asked them.

Cross References

Hebrews 6:12

We do not want you to become lazy, but to be like those who believe and are patient, and so receive what God has promised.

John 9:4

As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me; night is coming when no one can work.

Acts 17:21

For all the citizens of Athens and the foreigners who lived there liked to spend all their time telling and hearing the latest new thing.)

Proverbs 19:15

Go ahead and be lazy; sleep on, but you will go hungry.

Ezekiel 16:49

She and her daughters were proud because they had plenty to eat and lived in peace and quiet, but they did not take care of the poor and the underprivileged.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Work hard at whatever you do, because there will be no action, no thought, no knowledge, no wisdom in the world of the dead—and that is where you are going.

Matthew 20:5

So they went. Then at twelve o'clock and again at three o'clock he did the same thing.

Matthew 20:7

‘No one hired us,’ they answered. ‘Well, then, you go and work in the vineyard,’ he told them.

Matthew 20:9

The men who had begun to work at five o'clock were paid a silver coin each.