Matthew 20:4
And he said to them, Go into the vine-garden with the others, and whatever is right I will give you. And they went to work.
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Matthew 20:4
And he said to them, Go into the vine-garden with the others, and whatever is right I will give you. And they went to work.
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Matthew 20:3
And he went out about the third hour, and saw others in the market-place doing nothing;
Matthew 20:4
And he said to them, Go into the vine-garden with the others, and whatever is right I will give you. And they went to work.
Matthew 20:5
Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did the same.
Matthew 20:6
And about the eleventh hour he went out and saw others doing nothing; and he says to them, Why are you here all the day doing nothing?
Matthew 20:7
They say to him, Because no man has given us work. He says to them, Go in with the rest, into the vine-garden.
Job 7:1
Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?
Job 14:6
Let your eyes be turned away from him, and take your hand from him, so that he may have pleasure at the end of his day, like a servant working for payment.
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Matthew 20:1
For the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a house, who went out early in the morning to get workers into his vine-garden.
Matthew 20:2
And when he had made an agreement with the workmen for a penny a day, he sent them into his vine-garden.
Matthew 20:8
And when evening came, the lord of the vine-garden said to his manager, Let the workers come, and give them their payment, from the last to the first.
Matthew 20:9
And when those men came who had gone to work at the eleventh hour, they were given every man a penny.
Matthew 20:10
Then those who came first had the idea that they would get more; and they, like the rest, were given a penny.
Matthew 20:11
And when they got it, they made a protest against the master of the house,
Matthew 20:12
Saying, These last have done only one hour's work, and you have made them equal to us, who have undergone the hard work of the day and the burning heat.
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Matthew 20:13
But he in answer said to one of them, Friend, I do you no wrong: did you not make an agreement with me for a penny?
Matthew 20:14
Take what is yours, and go away; it is my pleasure to give to this last, even as to you.
Matthew 20:15
Have I not the right to do as seems good to me in my house? or is your eye evil, because I am good?
Matthew 20:16
So the last will be first, and the first last.
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Colossians 4:1
Masters, give your servants what is right and equal, conscious that you have a Master in heaven.
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