Matthew 19:30
"But many who are first shall be last, and many who are last shall be first.
Matthew 20:16
"So the last shall be first, and the first, last."
Mark 10:31
But many who are first shall be last, and the last, first."
Luke 13:30
"And lo, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last."
Matthew 21:31-32
"Which of these two did the will of his father?" "The last," they replied. "I tell you truly," said Jesus, "that the tax-gatherers and harlots are going into the kingdom of heaven before you!
Matthew 8:11-12
"I tell you that many will come from the east and from the west, and sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
Luke 7:29-30
On hearing this all the people and the tax-gatherers acknowledged the justice of God by being baptized with the baptism of John;
Luke 18:13-14
"But the tax-gatherer, standing far back, would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven, but kept beating his breast and saying, "'O God be merciful to me, the sinner!'
Romans 5:20-21
Now law was brought in so that transgression might abound; but where sin abounded, grace super-abounded;
Romans 9:30-33
What then shall we say? That Gentiles who never pursed righteousness have overtaken it, even the righteousness of faith?
Galatians 5:7
You were running your race nobly. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?
Hebrews 4:1
Let us be on our guard, then, though there is a promise still standing of being admitted to his rest, lest any one of you should be found to have come short of it.