Matthew 20:6

New Century Version

About five o’clock the man went to the marketplace again and saw others standing there. He asked them, ‘Why did you stand here all day doing nothing?’

Cross References

Proverbs 19:15

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

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever work you do, do your best, because you are going to the grave, where there is no working, no planning, no knowledge, and no wisdom.

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 20:5

So they went to work in the vineyard. The man went out again about twelve o’clock and three o’clock and did the same thing.

Matthew 20:7

They answered, ‘No one gave us a job.’ The man said to them, ‘Then you can go and work in my vineyard.’

Matthew 20:9

“When the workers who were hired at five o’clock came to get their pay, each received one coin.

John 9:4

While it is daytime, we must continue doing the work of the One who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.

Acts 17:21

(All the people of Athens and those from other countries who lived there always used their time to talk about the newest ideas.)

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.