Matthew 19:30 Cross References - ABU

³⁰ But many first will be last, and last first.

¹¹ And I say to you, that many will come from the east and west, and will recline at table, with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven; ¹² but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness. There will be the weeping, and the gnashing of teeth!

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

³¹ Which of the two did the father's will? They say to him: The first. Jesus says to them: Verily I say to you, that the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. ³² For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him; but the publicans and the harlots believed him; and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.

³¹ But many first will be last, and the last first.

²⁹ And all the people, hearing it, and the publicans, justified God, having been immersed with John's immersion. ³⁰ But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God toward themselves, not having been immersed by him.

³⁰ And, behold, there are last who will be first, and there are first who will be last.

¹³ And the publican, standing afar off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying: God be merciful to me, the sinner. ¹⁴ I say to you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For every one that exalts himself shall be humbled; and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.

²⁰ Moreover the law came in also, that the trespass might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound; ²¹ that as sin reigned in death, so also might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

³⁰ What then shall we say? That Gentiles, who were not following after righteousness, obtained righteousness, the righteousness which is of faith; ³¹ but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, attained not to [such] a law. ³² Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as being by works of law. For they stumbled against the stone of stumbling; ³³ as it is written: Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and he that believes on him shall not be put to shame.

⁷ Ye were running well; who hindered you, that ye should not obey the truth?

¹ LET us fear therefore, lest, a promise being still left us of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.