Matthew 20:6

Modern English Version

“About the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’

Cross References

Proverbs 19:15

Slothfulness casts a man into a deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hands find to do, do with your strength; for there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol where you are going.

Ezekiel 16:49

Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom. Pride, abundance of bread, and careless ease was in her and in her daughters, but she did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Matthew 20:5

Again he went out about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did likewise.

Matthew 20:7

“They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ “He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right you will receive.’

Matthew 20:9

“When they who were hired about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius.

John 9:4

I must do the works of Him who sent Me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work.

Acts 17:21

For all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time in nothing else, but either telling or hearing something new.

Hebrews 6:12

so that you may not be lazy, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.