Matthew 20:9

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And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.

After agreeing to pay the workers one denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

But the other criminal rebuked him, "Aren't you afraid of God, since you are suffering the same penalty?

For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."

Now the Law crept in so that the offense would increase. But where sin increased, grace increased even more,

so that we would praise his glorious grace that he gave us in the Beloved One.

For by such grace you have been saved through faith. This does not come from you; it is the gift of God

and the grace of our Lord overflowed toward me, along with the faith and love that are in the Messiah Jesus.