Matthew 20:6

New King James Version

And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here idle all day?’

Cross References

Proverbs 19:15

Laziness casts one into a deep sleep, And an idle person will suffer hunger.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.

Ezekiel 16:49

Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Matthew 20:5

Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise.

Matthew 20:7

They said to him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right you will receive.’

Matthew 20:9

And when those came who were hired about the eleventh hour, they each received a denarius.

John 9:4

I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work.

Acts 17:21

For all the Athenians and the foreigners who were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

Hebrews 6:12

that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.