Matthew 20:6-7
20:6 And about five o’clock that afternoon
he went out and found others standing around, and said to them, ‘Why are you standing here all day without work?’
20:7 They said to him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go and work in the vineyard too.’
Matthew 11:16-17
11:16 “To what should I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to one another,
11:17 ‘We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance;
we wailed in mourning, yet you did not weep.’
Proverbs 19:15
19:15 Laziness brings on a deep sleep,
and the idle person will go hungry.
Ezekiel 16:49
16:49 “‘See here – this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters had majesty, abundance of food, and enjoyed carefree ease, but they did not help the poor and needy.
Acts 17:17-21
17:17 So he was addressing
the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles
in the synagogue,
and in the marketplace every day
those who happened to be there.
17:18 Also some of the Epicurean
and Stoic
philosophers were conversing
with him, and some were asking,
“What does this foolish babbler
want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods.”
(They said this because he was proclaiming the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.)
17:19 So they took Paul and
brought him to the Areopagus,
saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are proclaiming?
17:20 For you are bringing some surprising things
to our ears, so we want to know what they
mean.”
17:21 (All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there used to spend their time
in nothing else than telling
or listening to something new.)
Acts 17:1
Paul and Silas at Thessalonica
17:1 After they traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
Acts 5:13
5:13 None of the rest dared to join them,
but the people held them in high honor.
Hebrews 6:12
6:12 so that you may not be sluggish,
but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherit the promises.