Matthew 20:9

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

He agreed with the laborers to pay them two shillings a day, and sent them into his vineyard.

But the other rebuked him. "Have not you," he said, "any fear of God, now that you are under the same sentence?

For what are the words of Scripture? 'Abraham had faith in God, and his faith was regarded by God as righteousness.'

Law was introduced in order that offences might be multiplied. But, where sins were multiplied, the loving-kindness of God was lavished the more,

And so to enhance that glorious manifestation of his loving- kindness which he gave us in The Beloved;

For it is by God's loving-kindness that you have been saved, through your faith. It is not due to yourselves; the gift is God's.

and the loving-kindness of our Lord was boundless, and filled me with that faith and love which come from union with Christ Jesus.