Matthew 20:6

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing; and he saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

Cross References

Proverbs 19:15

Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

Ezekiel 16:49

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom; pride, fulness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; 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 say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard.

Matthew 20:9

And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.

John 9:4

We must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

Acts 17:21

(Now all the Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.)

Hebrews 6:12

that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.