Matthew 20:3

New American Bible - revised edition

Going out about nine o’clock, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace,

Cross References

Proverbs 19:15

Laziness brings on deep sleep, and the sluggard goes hungry.

Ezekiel 16:49

Now look at the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters were proud, sated with food, complacent in prosperity. They did not give any help to the poor and needy.

Matthew 20:2

After agreeing with them for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard.

Matthew 20:4

and he said to them, ‘You too go into my vineyard, and I will give you what is just.’

Mark 15:25

It was nine o’clock in the morning when they crucified him.

Acts 16:19

When her owners saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them to the public square before the local authorities.

Acts 2:15

These people are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning.

1 Timothy 5:13

And furthermore, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers but gossips and busybodies as well, talking about things that ought not to be mentioned.

Hebrews 6:12

so that you may not become sluggish, but imitators of those who, through faith and patience, are inheriting the promises. God’s Promise Immutable.