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


In Context

13 But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst thou not agree with me for a penny?

14 Take that which is thine, and depart: I will give to this last, even as to thee.

15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? is thy eye evil because I am good?

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

17 And Jesus going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said to them,

18 Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be betrayed to the chief priests, and to the scribes, and 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

20:16"So the last will be first, and the first will be last."

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 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.