And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the market place;
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.
Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, surfeit of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went.
And it was the third hour, when they crucified him.
But when her owners saw that their hope of gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the market place before the rulers;
For these men are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day;
Besides that, they learn to be idlers, gadding about from house to house, and not only idlers but gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not.
so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.