“When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius.
Parallel translations
- KJV And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
- BSB The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius.
- NKJV And when those came who were hired about the eleventh hour, they each received a denarius.
- NASB When those hired about the eleventh hour came, each one received a denarius.
- NLT When those hired at five o’clock were paid, each received a full day’s wage.
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- Rom 4:3–6For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
- Eph 2:8–10for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
- Eph 1:6–8to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
- Matt 20:2When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
- Matt 20:6–7About the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’
- Luke 23:40–43But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “Don’t you even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation?
- Rom 5:20–21The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
- 1 Tim 1:14–16The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
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