And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and said unto them, Why stand you here all the day idle?
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, where you go.
Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom, pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.
They said unto him, Because no man has hired us. He said unto them, Go you also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall you receive.
And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night comes, when no man can work.
(For all the Athenians and strangers who were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
That you be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.