Matthew 20:16

In 9 translations

BSB

So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”BYZ and TR include For many are called, but few are chosen.

KJV

So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

WEB

So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”

ASV

So the last shall be first, and the first last.

LSV

So the last will be first, and the first last, for many are called, and few chosen.”

YLT

So the last shall be first, and the first last, for many are called, and few chosen.'

DBY

Thus shall the last be first, and the first last; for many are called ones, but few chosen ones.

DRC

So shall the last be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen.

GNV

So the last shalbe first, and the first last: for many are called, but fewe chosen.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT

οὕτως ἔσονται οἱ ἔσχατοι πρῶτοι καὶ οἱ πρῶτοι ἔσχατοι.

RP2018

Οὕτως ἔσονται οἱ ἔσχατοι πρῶτοι, καὶ οἱ πρῶτοι ἔσχατοι· πολλοὶ γάρ εἰσιν κλητοί, ὀλίγοι δὲ ἐκλεκτοί.

TR-Boyd

Οὕτως ἔσονται οἱ ἔσχατοι πρῶτοι, καὶ οἱ πρῶτοι ἔσχατοι· πολλοὶ γάρ εἰσι κλητοί, ὀλίγοι δὲ ἐκλεκτοί.

SCR1894

ουτως εσονται οι εσχατοι πρωτοι και οι πρωτοι εσχατοι πολλοι γαρ εισιν κλητοι ολιγοι δε εκλεκτοι

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• Matthew 19:30But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.
• Mark 10:31But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.”
• Matthew 22:14For many are called, but few are chosen.”
• Luke 13:28–30There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are thrown out. People will come from east and west and north and south,…
• Luke 15:7In the same way, I tell you that there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous ones who do not need to repent.
• Romans 9:30What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;
• Matthew 7:13Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
• Romans 8:30And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.
• James 1:23–25For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror, and after observing himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But the one who looks intently…
• 1 Thessalonians 2:13And we continually thank God because, when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as the true word of God—the word which is now at work in you who believe.
• Luke 14:24For I tell you, not one of those men who were invited will taste my banquet.’”
• Matthew 21:31Which of the two did the will of his father?” “The first,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you.
• Luke 17:17–18“Were not all ten cleansed?” Jesus asked. “Where then are the other nine? Was no one found except this foreigner to return and give glory to God?”
• Luke 7:47Therefore I tell you, because her many sins have been forgiven, she has loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little.”
• John 12:19–22Then the Pharisees said to one another, “You can see that this is doing you no good. Look how the whole world has gone after Him!” Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the feast. They came…
• Romans 5:20The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,

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