When those hired about the eleventh hour came, each one received a denarius.
When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius for the day, he sent them into his vineyard.
And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing around; and he *said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here idle all day long?’
But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “Do you not even fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?
For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
The Law came in so that the transgression would increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,
to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
and the grace of our Lord was more than abundant, with the faith and love which are found in Christ Jesus.