Matthew 20:16

The Parable Of The Workers In The Vineyard

¹⁵ Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my things? Or is thine eye evil because I am good ¹⁶ So shall the last be first, and the first last; for many are called, but few chosen. ¹⁷ And Jesus, going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and he said to them,

Chosen Ones

First Will Be Last

Last Will Be First

Chosen One

Matthew 19:30

And many first shall be last, and the last first.

Mark 10:31

And many first shall be last; and the last first.

Matthew 7:13

Enter ye in through the strait gate, for broad the gate and spacious the way leading to destruction, and many are they coming in through it.

Matthew 8:11-12

And I say to you, That many shall come from the sunrising and the descents, and shall recline with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of the heavens.

Matthew 21:31

Which of the two did the father's will? They say to him, The first. Jesus says to them, Truly I say to you, that publicans and harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.

Matthew 22:14

For many are called, and few chosen.

Luke 7:47

For which I say to thee, Her many sins are remitted; for she loved much: and he to whom little is remitted, loves little.

Luke 13:28-30

Weeping shall be there and gnashing of teeth, when ye see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you cast without.

Luke 14:24

For I say to you, That none of those men called shall taste of my supper.

Luke 15:7

I say to you, that so shall joy be in heaven over one sinful repenting, more than over ninety-nine just, which have no need of repentance.

Luke 17:17-18

And Jesus having answered said, Were not ten cleansed? and where the nine?

John 12:19-22

Then said the Pharisees among themselves, Ye see that ye aid nothing; behold, the world has departed after him.

Romans 5:20

And the law entered, that the fall might abound. And where sin abounded, grace superabounded:

Romans 8:30

And whom he before determined, these he also called: and whom he called, these he also justified: and whom he justified, these he also glorified.

Romans 9:30

What then shall we say? That the nations, not following justice, overtook justice, and the justice of faith.

1 Thessalonians 2:13

For this also we return thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of God from our report, ye received not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, which is also energetic in you the believing.

2 Thessalonians 2:13-14

And we ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren dearly beloved by the Lord, that God chose you from the beginning to salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

James 1:23-25

For if any is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man observing the face of his creation in a mirror: