Matthew 20:16 - Easy To Read Version

¹⁶ “So the people that have the last place now will have the first place in the future. And the people that have the first place now will have the last place in the future.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ So those who [now] are last will be first [then], and those who [now] are first will be last [then]. For many are called, but few chosen.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ So the last shall be first, and the first last.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ So those who are last will be first. And those who are first will be last.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ So then, the last shall be first, and the first shall be last. For many are called, but few are chosen."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ So shall the last be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen.

Matthew 20:16 Tagairtí Cros

Matthew 19:30

Many people that have the highest place in life now will have the lowest place in the future. And many people that have the lowest place now will have the highest place in the future.

Matthew 21:31

“Which of the two sons obeyed his father?”

Matthew 22:14

“Yes, many people are invited. But only a few are chosen.”

Matthew 7:13

“Enter through the narrow gate \{that opens the way to heaven\}. The road that leads to hell is a very easy road. And the gate to hell is very wide. Many people enter that gate.

Mark 10:31

Many people that have the highest place now will have the lowest place in the future. And the people that have the lowest place now will have the highest place in the future.”

Luke 14:24

None of those people that I invited first will ever eat with me!’”

Luke 15:7

In the same way, I tell you, heaven is a happy place when one sinner changes his heart. There is more joy for that one sinner than there is for 99 good people that don’t need to change their hearts.

Luke 7:47

I tell you that her many sins are forgiven. This is clear, because she showed great love. But the person that feels only a little need to be forgiven will feel only a little love when he is forgiven.”

Romans 5:20

The law came to make people have more sin. But when people had more sin, God gave them more of his grace (kindness).

Romans 8:30

God planned for those people to be like his Son. And he called (chose) those people. God called those people and made them right with him. And God gave his glory to those people that he made right.

Romans 9:30

So what does all this mean? It means this: That the non-Jews were not trying to make themselves right with God. But they were made right with God. They became right because of their faith.

1 Thessalonians 2:13

Also, we always thank God because of the way you accepted God’s message (teaching). You heard that message from us, and you accepted it like it was God’s words, not the words of men. And it really is God’s message (teaching). And that message works in you people who believe.