Matthew 20:6 - New International Version (Anglicised)

⁶ About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, “Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ And about the eleventh hour (five o'clock) he went out and found still others standing around, and said to them, Why do you stand here idle all day?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ 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?

Common English Bible

⁶ Around five in the afternoon he went and found others standing around, and he said to them, ‘Why are you just standing around here doing nothing all day long?’

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Yet truly, about the eleventh hour, he went out and found others standing, and he said to them, 'Why have you stood here idle all day?'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and he saith to them: Why stand you here all the day idle?

Matthew 20:6 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 19:15

Laziness brings on deep sleep, and the shiftless go hungry.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.

Ezekiel 16:49

‘ “Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.

Matthew 20:5

So they went. ‘He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing.

Matthew 20:7

‘ “Because no-one has hired us,” they answered. ‘He said to them, “You also go and work in my vineyard.”

Matthew 20:9

‘The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius.

John 9:4

As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no-one can work.

Acts 17:21

(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.)

Hebrews 6:12

We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.