Matthew 20:16 - The Text-Critical English New Testament

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

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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

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Mark 10:31

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Luke 14:24

For I tell you that none of those men who were invited shall taste my banquet.’ For many are called, but few are chosen.”

Luke 15:7

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Luke 7:47

Therefore I tell yoʋ, her many sins are forgiven; that is why she has shown great love. But he to whom little is forgiven shows little love.”

Romans 5:20

Now the law came in so that the trespass might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded all the more,

Romans 8:30

And those whom he foreordained, he also called; and those whom he called, he also justified; and those whom he justified, he also glorified.

Romans 9:30

What then shall we say? That Gentiles who were not pursuing righteousness have obtained righteousness, that is, the righteousness that is by faith.

1 Thessalonians 2:13

We also give thanks to God without ceasing because, when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe.