Matthew 20:3

New Century Version

About nine o’clock the man went to the marketplace and saw some other people standing there, doing nothing.

Cross References

Proverbs 19:15

Lazy people sleep a lot, and idle people will go hungry.

Ezekiel 16:49

“ ‘This was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were proud and had plenty of food and lived in great comfort, but she did not help the poor and needy.

Matthew 20:2

The man agreed to pay the workers one coin for working that day. Then he sent them into the vineyard to work.

Matthew 20:4

So he said to them, ‘If you go and work in my vineyard, I will pay you what your work is worth.’

Mark 15:25

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

Acts 16:19

When the owners of the servant girl saw this, they knew that now they could not use her to make money. So they grabbed Paul and Silas and dragged them before the city rulers in the marketplace.

Acts 2:15

These people are not drunk, as you think; it is only nine o’clock in the morning!

1 Timothy 5:13

Besides that, they learn to waste their time, going from house to house. And they not only waste their time but also begin to gossip and busy themselves with other people’s lives, saying things they should not say.

Hebrews 6:12

We do not want you to become lazy. Be like those who through faith and patience will receive what God has promised.