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


In Context

13 |But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn't you agree with me for a denarius?

14 Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you.

15 Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?'

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

17 As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them,

18 |Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and 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 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 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.