Matthew 20:3

New International Version

“About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.

Cross References

Proverbs 19:15

Laziness brings on deep sleep, and the shiftless go hungry.

Ezekiel 16:49

“ ‘Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.

Matthew 20:2

He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.

Matthew 20:4

He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’

Mark 15:25

It was nine in the morning when they crucified him.

Acts 16:19

When her owners realized that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to face the authorities.

Acts 2:15

These people are not drunk, as you suppose. It’s only nine in the morning!

1 Timothy 5:13

Besides, they get into the habit of being idle and going about from house to house. And not only do they become idlers, but also busybodies who talk nonsense, saying things they ought not to.

Hebrews 6:12

We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.