Matthew 20:12

The first workers protest that the latecomers, who worked only an hour, were made equal to those who toiled all day in the heat. They demand reward strictly by merit and effort.

Cross-references · 19

• Rom 11:5–6In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.
• 2 Cor 11:23–28Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.
• Luke 12:55And when the south wind blows, you say, ‘It will be hot,’ and it is.
• Luke 14:10–11But when you are invited, go and sit in the last place, so that your host will come and tell you, ‘Friend, move up to a better place.’ Then you will be honored in front of everyone at the table with you.
• 1 Cor 4:11To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.
• Luke 18:11–12The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like the other men—swindlers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.
• Mal 3:14You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?
• Isa 58:2–3For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”
• Jas 1:11For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.
• Jonah 4:8As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
• Rom 3:27Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.
• Luke 15:29–30But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.
• Mal 1:13You also say: ‘Oh, what a nuisance!’ And you turn up your nose at it,” says the LORD of Hosts. “You bring offerings that are stolen, lame, or sick! Should I accept these from your hands?” asks the LORD.
• Rom 3:22–24And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,
• Eph 3:6This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus.
• Rom 3:30since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.
• Rom 10:1–3Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is for their salvation.
• Rom 9:30–32What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;
• Zech 7:3–5by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”

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