16"So the last will be first, and the first will be last."


In Context

13 "But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn't you agree to work for a denarius?

14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the man who was hired last the same as I gave you.

15 Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?'

16 "So the last will be first, and the first will be last."

17 Now as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside and said to them,

18 "We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death

Matthew 20:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:16So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:16So shall the last be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:16So the last shall be first, and the first last.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:16Thus shall the last be first, and the first last; for many are called ones, but few chosen ones.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:16So the last shall be first, and the first last.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:16So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many are called, but few chosen.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:16So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:16So the last shall be first, and the first last, for many are called, and few chosen.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:16So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.