Matthew 20:3

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Matthew 20:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible

1 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.

2 He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.

3 About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.

4 ‘You also go into my vineyard,’ he said, ‘and I will pay you whatever is right.’

5 So they went. He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing.

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Mark 15:25

It was the third hour when they crucified Him.

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These men are not drunk, as you suppose. It is only the third hour of the day!

Matthew 20:6

About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’ he asked.

Matthew 20:7

‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered. So he told them, ‘You also go into my vineyard.’

Matthew 11:16

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Matthew 11:17

‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’

Proverbs 19:15

Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.

Ezekiel 16:49

Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and complacent; they did not help the poor and needy.

Acts 17:17

So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and God-fearing Gentiles, and in the marketplace with those he met each day.

Acts 17:18

Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also began to debate with him. Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was proclaiming the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

Acts 17:19

So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, where they asked him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?

Acts 17:20

For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.”

Acts 17:21

Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing more than hearing and articulating new ideas.

1 Timothy 5:13

At the same time they will also learn to be idle, going from house to house and being not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, discussing things they should not mention.

Hebrews 6:12

Then you will not be sluggish, but will imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.