Matthew 20:16 · KJV
“So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.”
— Matthew 20:16
Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them,
Matthew 20 — Context
Take {that} thine {is}, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.
15Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
16So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
17And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them,
18Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death,
Cross References
Matthew 19:30
But many {that are} first shall be last; and the last {shall be} first.
Mark 10:31
But many {that are} first shall be last; and the last first.
Matthew 22:14
Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in {his} talk.
Luke 13:28-30
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you {yourselves} thrust out.
Luke 15:7
I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
Romans 8:30
Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Romans 9:30
What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
Matthew 7:13
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide {is} the gate, and broad {is} the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: {strait: or, narrow}