Matthew 20:16

The Parable Of The Workers In The Vineyard

¹⁵ Have I not the right to do as seems good to me in my house? or is your eye evil, because I am good? ¹⁶ So the last will be first, and the first last. ¹⁷ And when Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples on one side, and said to them,

Chosen Ones

First Will Be Last

Last Will Be First

Chosen One

Matthew 19:30

But a great number who are first will be last, and some who are last will be first.

Mark 10:31

But a great number who are first will be last: and those who are last will be first.

Matthew 7:13

Go in by the narrow door; for wide is the door and open is the way which goes to destruction, and great numbers go in by it.

Matthew 8:11-12

And I say to you that numbers will come from the east and the west, and will take their seats with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven:

Matthew 21:31

Which of the two did his father's pleasure? They say, The first. Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that tax-farmers and loose women are going into the kingdom of God before you.

Matthew 22:14

For out of all to whom the good news has come, only a small number will get salvation.

Luke 7:47

And so I say to you, She will have forgiveness for her sins which are great in number, because of her great love: but he who has small need of forgiveness gives little love.

Luke 13:28-30

There will be weeping and cries of sorrow when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are shut outside.

Luke 14:24

For I say to you that not one of those who were requested to come will have a taste of my feast.

Luke 15:7

I say to you that even so there will be more joy in heaven when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing, than for ninety-nine good men, who have no need of a change of heart.

Luke 17:17-18

And Jesus said, Were there not ten men who were made clean? where are the nine?

John 12:19-22

Then the Pharisees said one to another, You see, you are unable to do anything: the world has gone after him.

Romans 5:20

And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:

Romans 8:30

And those who were marked out by him were named; and those who were named were given righteousness; and to those to whom he gave righteousness, in the same way he gave glory.

Romans 9:30

What then may we say? That the nations who did not go after righteousness have got righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:

1 Thessalonians 2:13

And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.

2 Thessalonians 2:13-14

But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true:

James 1:23-25

Because if any man is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a glass;