Matthew 20:6

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Proverbs 19:15

Slothfulness casts 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 thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

Ezekiel 16:49

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.

Matthew 20:5

Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same.

Matthew 20:7

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

Matthew 20:9

And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius.

John 9:4

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

Acts 17:21

Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.

Hebrews 6:12

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