Matthew 20:6

New International Version

About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’

Cross References

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.

John 9:4

As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.

Acts 17:21

(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.)

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.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.

Matthew 20:5

So they went. “He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing.

Matthew 20:7

“ ‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered. “He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’

Matthew 20:9

“The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius.