And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and said to them, Why do you stand here all the day idle?
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor devising, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, to which you go.
Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, 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 to him, Because no man has hired us. He said to them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatever is right, that shall you receive.
And when those came who were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day: the night comes, when no man can work.
(For all the Athenians and foreigners which 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 those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.