Matthew 20:6

New American Bible - revised edition

Going out about five o’clock, he found others standing around, and said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’

Cross References

Proverbs 19:15

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

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Anything you can turn your hand to, do with what power you have; for there will be no work, no planning, no knowledge, no wisdom in Sheol where you are going. The Time of Misfortune Is Not Known.

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 20:5

So they went off. [And] he went out again around noon, and around three o’clock, and did likewise.

Matthew 20:7

They answered, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You too go into my vineyard.’

Matthew 20:9

When those who had started about five o’clock came, each received the usual daily wage.

John 9:4

We have to do the works of the one who sent me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work.

Acts 17:21

Now all the Athenians as well as the foreigners residing there used their time for nothing else but telling or hearing something new. Paul’s Speech at the Areopagus.

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.