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Matthew 20:16

So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”

Matthew 20:16 BSB
  1. a BYZ and TR include For many are called, but few are chosen.

Matthew 20:16 has 18 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 18 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Matthew 19:30 (28 votes) and Mark 10:31 (23 votes). 27 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Numbers 4 to James 1.

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Which verses does Matthew 20:16 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Matthew 19:3028 votes

    But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.

  2. Mark 10:3123 votes

    But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.”

  3. Matthew 22:1421 votes

    For many are called, but few are chosen.”

  4. Luke 13:28–3012 votes

    There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are thrown out. People will come from east and west and north and south, and will recline at the table in the kingdom of God. …

  5. Luke 15:711 votes

    I tell you that in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous ones who do not need to repent.

  6. Matthew 7:139 votes

    Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.

  7. Romans 8:309 votes

    And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.

  8. Romans 9:309 votes

    What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;

  9. James 1:23–258 votes

    For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror, and after observing himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. …

  10. Luke 14:247 votes

    For I tell you, not one of those men who were invited will taste my banquet.’”

  11. 1 Thessalonians 2:137 votes
  12. Matthew 21:316 votes
  13. Luke 7:476 votes
  14. Luke 17:17–186 votes
  15. John 12:19–226 votes
  16. Romans 5:206 votes

    The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,

  17. Matthew 8:11–125 votes
  18. 2 Thessalonians 2:13–145 votes

Which verses point to Matthew 20:16?

The 10 strongest of 27.