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Matthew 20:6

James Moffatt - New Testament

And when he went out at five o'clock he came upon some others who were standing; he said to them, 'Why have you stood doing nothing all the day?'

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so that instead of being slack you may imitate those who inherit the promises by their stedfast faith.

While daylight lasts, we must be busy with the work of God: night comes, when no one can do any work.

(For all the Athenians and the foreign visitors to Athens occupied themselves with nothing else than repeating or listening to the latest novelty.)

Going out again at twelve o'clock and at three o'clock, he did the same thing.

'Because nobody hired us,' they said. He told them, 'You go into the vineyard too.'

When those who had been hired about five o'clock came, they got a shilling each.