Matthew 20:6
About the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’
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Matthew 20:6
About the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’
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Matthew 20:1
“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
Matthew 20:2
When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
Matthew 20:3
He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.
Matthew 20:4
He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went their way.
Matthew 20:5
Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise.
Matthew 20:6
About the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’
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 20:8
“When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’
Matthew 20:9
“When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius.
Matthew 20:10
When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius.
Matthew 20:11
When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,
Matthew 20:12
saying, ‘These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’
Matthew 20:13
“But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn’t you agree with me for a denarius?
Matthew 20:14
Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you.
Job 7:1
“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?
Job 14:6
Look away from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.
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2 Peter 1:8
For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Timothy 5:13
Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.
Proverbs 19:15
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Titus 1:12
One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”
Hebrews 6:12
that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.
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.
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.
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Joshua 18:3
Joshua said to the children of Israel, “How long will you neglect to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you?
Proverbs 2:2
so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
Proverbs 2:3
yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;
Proverbs 2:4
if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;
Proverbs 2:5
then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.
Proverbs 2:6
For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs 10:4
He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.
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.
Zephaniah 3:16
In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, “Don’t be afraid, Zion. Don’t let your hands be weak.”
Philippians 3:13
Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before,
Philippians 3:14
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
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Matthew 20:15
Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’
Matthew 20:16
So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”
John 11:9
Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
Romans 4:4
Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.
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Luke 23:40
But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “Don’t you even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation?
Luke 23:41
And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong.”
Luke 23:42
He said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.”
Luke 23:43
Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
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