Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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?

Bible References

The eleventh

Ecclesiastes 9:10
All which thy hand shall find to do, with thy strength, do thou; for no work and understanding and knowledge and wisdom, in hades where thou goest there.
Luke 23:40
And the other having answered, censured him, saying, Shouldest thou not fear God, for thou art in the same judgment?
John 9:4
I must work the works of him having sent me, while it is day: night comes, when none can work.

Why

Proverbs 19:15
Sloth will cast a deep sleep; and the soul of sloth shall hunger.
Ezekiel 16:49
Behold, this was the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, pride, fulness of bread, security of rest was to her and to her daughters, and she strengthened not the hand of the poor and needy.
Acts 17:21
(And all the Athenians and strangers being present, passed time in nothing else but to say or hear some thing new.)
Hebrews 6:12
That ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them inheriting the promises by faith and longsnffering.