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Matthew 20:6

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

And about five o'clock he went out and found others standing around; and he said to them, ‘Why are you standing here idle all day?’

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Laziness brings on deep sleep; an idle person will suffer hunger.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do with your might; for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.

When he went out again about noon and about three o'clock, he did the same.

They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard.’

When those hired about five o'clock came, each of them received the usual daily wage.

We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming when no one can work.

Now all the Athenians and the foreigners living there would spend their time in nothing but telling or hearing something new.

so that you may not become sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.