Matthew 20:16

1380 (Wyclif's Bible by John Wycliffe)
1395 So the laste schulen be the firste, and the firste the laste; `for many ben clepid, but fewe ben chosun. (Wyclif's Bible by John Wycliffe)
1534 Soo the laste shalbe fyrste and the fyrste shalbe laste. For many are called and feawe be chosen. (Tyndale Bible by William Tyndale)
1535 So the last shalbe the first, & the first the last. For many are called, but few are chosen. (Coverdale Bible)
1539 (Great Bible First Edition - Miles Coverdale)
1540 So þe last shalbe fyrst, & the fyrste shalbe last. For many be called, but fewe be chosen. (Great Bible Second Edition - Miles Coverdale)
1549 So þe laste shalbe firste, and the first shalbe laste. For many are called, and few be chosen. (Matthew's Bible - John Rogers)
1557 (Geneva 1557) by William Whittingham
1560
1568 So the last, shalbe the first, & the first [shalbe] last: For many be called, but fewe [be] chosen. (Bishop's Bible First Edition)
1572 (Bishop's Bible)
1582 (Rheims 1582)
1587 So the last shalbe first, and the first last: for many are called, but fewe chosen. (Geneva Bible) by William Whittingham (Geneva Bible) by William Whittingham
1599 (Geneva Bible) by William Whittingham
1611 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many bee called, but fewe chosen. (King James Version)
1729 thus the last shall be first, and the first last: for though many are invited, few have precedence. (Mace New Testament)
1745 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for the called are many, but the chosen are few. (Mr. Whiston's Primitive New Testament)
1762 (King James Version)
1769 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen. (King James Version - Benjamin Blayney)
1770 Is thine eye evil because I am good? Thus the last shall be first, and the first last; for there are many called, but few chosen. (Worsley Version by John Worsley)
1790 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many are called, but few chosen. (Wesley Version by John Wesley)
1795 Thus shall the last be first, and the first last; for many are called, but the elect are few. (A Translation of the New Testament from the Original Greek by Thomas Haweis)
1833 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many are called, but few chosen. (Webster Version - by Noah Webster)
1835 Thus the last shall be first, and first last; for there are many called, but few chosen. (Living Oracles by Alexander Campbell)
1849 Thus the last shall be first, and the first last; for many are the called, but few the chosen. (Etheridge Translation by John Etheridge)
1850 (King James Version by Committee)
1851 (Murdock Translation)
1855 Calvin Bible by the Calvin Translation Society
1858 So the last shall be first, and the first last. (The New Testament Translated from the Original Greek by Leicester Sawyer)
1865 Thus shall be the last, first; and the first, last. Many for are called, few but chosen. (The Emphatic Diaglott by Benjamin Wilson)
1865 So will the last be first, and the first last; for many are called, but few are chosen. (The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 1865 by American Bible Union)
1869 Thus the last will be first, and the first, last. And as (Noyes Translation by George Noyes)
1873 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen. (King James Version) by Frederick Scrivener)
1885 So the last shall be first, and the first last. (Revised Version also called English Revised Version - Charles Ellicott editor)
1890 Thus shall the last be first, and the first last; for many are called ones, but few chosen ones. (Darby Version 1890 by John Darby)
1898 So the last shall be first, and the first last, for many are called, and few chosen.' (Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young)
1901 So the last shall be first, and the first last. (American Standard Version - Philip Schaff)
1902 Thus, shall be––The last first, and the first last. (The Emphasised Bible Rotherham Version)
1902 So the last shall be first, and first last. (Translation of the New Testament from the Original Greek by William Godbey)
1904 So the last shall be first, and the first last. (The New Testament: Revised and Translated by Adolphus Worrell)
1904 So those who are last will be first, and the first last." (Twentieth Century New Testament by Ernest Malan and Mary Higgs)
1911 (Syrus Scofield)
1912 "So the last shall be first, and the first last." (Weymouth New Testament)
1918 So the last shall be first, and the first last. (The New Testament Translated from the Sinaitic Manuscript by Henry Anderson)
1923 (Edgar Goodspeed)
1982 (New King James Version) Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson.
1984 (New International Version)(NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.®
1995 (New American Standard Bible) NASB (©1995)
1999 (American King James Version)AKJV
2000 (King James 2000 Bible©)n
2005 (Today’s New International Version)
(BBE)
2009 (Holman Christian Standard Bible)(HCSB) Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville Tennessee. All rights reserved.
(21st Century King James Version) Copyright © 1994 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc.
(Common English Bible) Copyright © 2011 by Common English Bible
(GOD’S WORD Translation)(GW) Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
(Contemporary English Version)(CEV) Copyright © 1995 by American Bible Society
(New Living Translation)(NLT) Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright© 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013 by Tyndale House Foundation.
(Amplified Bible) Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation
(The Message) (MSG) Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson
(New International Reader's Version) (NIRV) Copyright © 1995, 1996, 1998, 2014 by Biblica, Inc.®.
(Wycliffe New Testament)

Foreign Language Versions

Afrikaans

1933 (Ta Biblia Ta Logia - J. D. du Toit, E. E. van Rooyen, J. D. Kestell, H. C. M. Fourie, and BB Keet
1953
1982 Paraphrase - Die Lewende Bybel, Christelike Uitgewersmaatskappy (CUM)
1982 South African Bible Society - E. P. Groenewald, A. H. van Zyl, P. A. Verhoef, J. L. Helberg, and W. Kempen
1983 © Bybelgenootskap van Suid Afrika
2001 The Nuwe Wêreld-vertaling van die Heilige Skrif is an Afrikaans translation of the 1984 English translation of the Bible by the Watchtower Society.
2002 Die Boodskap
2002 DieBybel@Kinders.co.za - Gert Prinsloo, Phil Botha, Willem Boshoff, Hennie Stander, Dirk Human, Stephan Joubert, and Jan van der Watt.
2006 The Nuwe Lewende Vertaling (literally "New Living Translation")
2008 Bybel vir Almal - South African Bible Society, Bart Oberholzer, Bernard Combrink, Hermie van Zyl, Francois Tolmie, Christo van der Merwe, Rocco Hough en Elmine Roux.
2014 Direct Translation, South African Bible Society
2014 Afrikaans Standard Version, CUM Books

Akan

Albabian

Amuzgo de Guerrero

1973 Amuzgo de Guerrero (AMU) Copyright © 1973, 1999 by La Liga Biblica
1999

Armenian

Arabic

1516
1591
1616
1622
1671 Biblia Arabica. de propaganda fide. Arabic and Latin Bible printed in Rome by Abraham Ecchellensis and Louis Maracci
هكذا يكون الآخرون اولين والاولون آخرين. لان كثيرين يدعون وقليلين ينتخبون (Arabic Smith & Van Dyke)
1988 Arabic Life Application Bible (ALAB) Copyright © 1988 by Biblica
2009 Arabic Bible: Easy-to-Read Version (ERV-AR) Copyright © 2009 by World Bible Translation Center

Aramaic/Syriac

ܗܟܢܐ ܢܗܘܘܢ ܐܚܪܝܐ ܩܕܡܝܐ ܘܩܕܡܝܐ ܐܚܪܝܐ ܤܓܝܐܝܢ ܐܢܘܢ ܓܝܪ ܩܪܝܐ ܘܙܥܘܪܝܢ ܓܒܝܐ ܀ (Aramaic Peshitta)

Basque

1571 Hala içanen dirade azquenac, lehen: eta lehenac, azquen: ecen anhitz dirade deithuac, baina guti elegituac.

Bulgarian

1940 Така последните ще бъдат първи, а първите последни. (1940 Bulgarian Bible)
(Матей 20:16) (Bulgarian Bible)

Cherokee

1860 Cherokee New Testament (CHR)

Chinese

1 (Chinese Union Version (Simplified))
1 (Chinese Union Version (Traditional))
20:16 (Chinese King James Version)

Croatian

Czech

1613

Danish

Dutch

1619

Esperanto

Finnish

French

Ainsi les derniers seront les premiers, et les premiers les derniers, car il y a beaucoup d'appelés, mais peu d'élus. (French Darby)
1744 Ainsi les derniers seront les premiers, et les premiers seront les derniers, car il y a beaucoup d'appelés, mais peu d'élus. (Martin 1744)
1744 Ainsi les derniers seront les premiers, et les premiers seront les derniers; car il y en a beaucoup d'appelés, mais peu d'élus. (Ostervald 1744)
1864 (Augustin Crampon)
1910
2006 (King James Française)

German

1545 Also werden die Letzten die Ersten, und die Ersten die Letzten sein. Denn viele sind berufen, aber wenige sind auserwählet. (Luther 1545)
1871 Also werden die Letzten Erste, und die Ersten Letzte sein; denn viele sind Berufene, wenige aber Auserwählte. (Elberfelder 1871)
1912 Also werden die Letzten die Ersten und die Ersten die Letzten sein. Denn viele sind berufen, aber wenige auserwählt. (Luther 1912)

Greek

1904 (Greek Orthodox (B. Antoniades))
Modern Greek (Trinitarian Bible Society)

Hungarian

Indonesian

Italian

1649 Così, gli ultimi saranno primi, e i primi ultimi; perciocchè molti son chiamati, ma pochi eletti. (Giovanni Diodati Bible 1649)
1927 Così gli ultimi saranno primi, e i primi ultimi. (Riveduta Bible 1927)

Japanese

1928 (Naoji Nagai)

Kabyle

Khmer

1928

Latin

sic erunt novissimi primi et primi novissimi multi sunt enim vocati pauci autem electi Latin Vulgate
1527 (Erasmus 1527)
1527 (Erasmus Vulgate 1527)
1565 (Beza)
1598 (Beza)

Latvian

Maori

1833
1837
1858
1868 (Formal translation based on the Greek 'Received Text': Trinitarian Bible Society)
1833
1952

Norwegian

1930

Pidgin

1996 (Pidgin King Jems)

Portugese

Potawatomi

1833 (Potawatomi Matthew and Acts)

Romainian

1551 (Slavic-Romanian Gospel)
1561 (Coresi's Gospel)
1570 (The Braşov Psalm Book) Psalms Only
1582 (Palia from Orăştie)
1648 (The New Testament of Alba Iulia)
1688 (Biblia de la Bucureşti - Bucharest Bible)
1911 (Nitzulescu - British and Foreign Bible Society)
1921 (Cornilescu)
1924 (Cornilescu - British and Foreign Bible Society)
1989 (Gute Botschaft Verlag)
2010 (Biblia Traducerea Fidela în limba româna - Textus Receptus Based)
2013 (Biblia Traducerea Fidela în limba română - based upon the Textus Receptus / King James Version)
2014 (Biblia Traducerea Fidela în limba română - based upon the Textus Receptus / King James Version)
2014 (Cornilescu 90th anniversary definitive edition - British and Foreign Bible Society)

Russian

1876 Так будут последние первыми, и первые последними, ибо много званых, а мало избранных. Russian Synodal Version
Phonetically:

Sanskrit

1851

Shur

Spanish

See Also Bible translations (Spanish)

1543 (Francisco de Enzinas New Testament)
1556 (Juan Perez de Pineda New Testament and book of Psalms)
1569 (Sagradas Escrituras)
1814 Valera Revision
1817 Valera Revision
1831 Valera Revision
1858 Reina Valera
1862 Valera Revision
1865 Valera Revision (American Bible Society Revisión)
1869 Valera Revision
1909 (Reina-Valera) Antigua Spanish Bible
1960 Versión Reina-Valera (Eugene Nida )
1987 Translation from English. Publisher: Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society.
1994 Nuevo Testamento versión Recobro
1997 (La Biblia de las Américas) (©1997)
1999 Nueva Versión Internacional (NVI)
2002 (1602 Purificada)
2009 Santa Biblia: Reina-Valera
1 (Reina Valera Gómez)

Swahili

Yesu akamaliza kwa kusema, "Hivyo, walio wa mwisho watakuwa wa kwanza na wa kwanza watakuwa wa mwisho."

Swedish

1917 Så skola de sista bliva de första, och de första bliva de sista.» (Swedish - Svenska 1917)

Tagalog

1905 Kaya't ang mga una'y mangahuhuli, at ang mga huli ay mangauuna. (Ang Dating Biblia 1905)

Thai

(Thai KJV)

Turkish

Ukrainian

Urdu

1878 (Hindustani Roman Script)
1938 (Urdu Revised Version. British and Foreign Bible Society, 1938)
2016 (Urdu Bible)

Vietnamese

1934 Ðó, những kẻ rốt sẽ nên đầu và kẻ đầu sẽ nên rốt là như vậy. (Ma-thi-ô 20:16 Vietnamese Bible) (VIET)

Welsh

1567 (William Salesbury, printed in 1567 by Humphrey Toy)
1588 (William Morgan)
1620 (William Morgan)
1824
1988 (New Welsh Bible)
2004
2011 (beibl.net 2011 by Arfon Jones)

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