³⁰ But a great number who are first will be last, and some who are last will be first.

³⁰ And the last will be first, and the first will be last.

³¹ But a great number who are first will be last: and those who are last will be first.

¹⁶ So the last will be first, and the first last.

³¹ Which of the two did his father's pleasure? They say, The first. Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that tax-farmers and loose women are going into the kingdom of God before you.

³² For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you had no faith in him, but the tax-farmers and the loose women had faith in him: and you, when you saw it, did not even have regret for your sins, so as to have faith in him.

¹ Let us then, though we still have God's word that we may come into his rest, go in fear that some of you may be unable to do so.

⁷ You were going on well; who was the cause of your not giving ear to what is true?

³⁰ What then may we say? That the nations who did not go after righteousness have got righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:

³¹ But Israel, going after a law of righteousness, did not get it.

³² Why? Because they were not searching for it by faith, but by works. They came up against the stone which was in the way;

³³ As it is said, See, I am putting in Zion a stone causing a fall, and a rock in the way: but he who has faith in him will not be put to shame.

²⁰ And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:

²¹ That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹³ The tax-farmer, on the other hand, keeping far away, and not lifting up even his eyes to heaven, made signs of grief and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

¹⁴ I say to you, This man went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other: for everyone who makes himself high will be made low and whoever makes himself low will be made high.

²⁹ (And all the people, and the tax-farmers, to whom John had given baptism, when they had knowledge of these things, gave glory to God.

³⁰ But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law were against the purpose of God for themselves, not having had his baptism.)

¹¹ And I say to you that numbers will come from the east and the west, and will take their seats with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven:

¹² But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.