Matthew 20:9

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

When he had contracted with the laborers at twenty cents a day, he sent them off to his vineyard.

But the other one reproved him and said, "Do you not fear even God when you are suffering the same penalty?

For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham put his faith in God, and it was credited to him as right standing with God."

Then law crept in to multiply the offense. Though sin has multiplied, yet God's favor has surpassed it and overflowed,

so that we might praise the splendid favor which He has shown us in His beloved Son.

For it is by His unmerited favor through faith that you have been saved; it is not by anything that you have done, it is the gift of God.

and the spiritual blessing of our Lord in increasing floods has come upon me, accompanied by faith and love inspired by union with Christ Jesus.