Matthew 20:1Open English Bible (Commonwealth)
For the kingdom of heaven is like an employer who went out in the early morning to hire labourers for his vineyards.
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Ruth 3:13
Stay here tonight, and then in the morning, if he will perform for you the duty of a kinsman, well, let him do it. But if he will not perform for you the duty of a kinsman, then as surely as the Lord lives, I will do it for you. Lie down until morning.’
Ruth 3:14
So she lay at his feet until morning, but rose before anyone could recognise her, for Boaz said, ‘No one must know that a woman came to the threshing-floor.’
Ruth 4:11
Then all the people who were at the gate and the elders said, ‘We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is coming into your house like Rachel and Leah, who together built the house of Israel. May you do well in Ephrata, and become famous in Bethlehem.
Ruth 4:12
From the children whom the Lord will give you by this young woman may your household become like the household of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah.’
Esther 1:4
while for one hundred and eighty days he showed them the glorious riches of his kingdom and the costliness of his magnificent regalia.