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?
The eleventh
Bible References
The eleventh
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever your hand finds to do--do [it] with [all] your might; for in Sheol--where you are going--no one works, plans, knows, or thinks about anything.
Luke 23:40
But the other answered [and] rebuked him, saying, "Do you not even fear God, because you are undergoing the same condemnation?
John 9:4
It is necessary [for] us to do the deeds of the one who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work!
Why
Proverbs 19:15
Laziness will bring on a deep sleep, and a person of idleness will suffer hunger.
Ezekiel 16:49
Look! This was the iniquity of Sodom, your sister: Pride, abundance of food, and {prosperous ease} was to her and to her daughters, and {she did not sustain the needy and the poor}.
Acts 17:21
(Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who stayed there used to spend [their] time in nothing else than telling something or listening to something new.)
Hebrews 6:12
in order that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and patience.