Matthew 20:6

World Messianic Bible British Edition

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

Cross References

Proverbs 19:15

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

Ezekiel 16:49

“‘“Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters. She also didn’t 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 has hired us.’ “He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.’

Matthew 20:9

“When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, 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

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

Hebrews 6:12

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.