Quotes about Equality
And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even Gentiles do the same?
- Matthew 5:47
Jesus invited a little child to stand among them.
- Matthew 18:2
But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.
- Matthew 19:30
About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.
- Matthew 20:3
So they went. He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing.
- Matthew 20:5
About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’ he asked.
- Matthew 20:6
The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius.
- Matthew 20:9
So when the original workers came, they assumed they would receive more. But each of them also received a denarius.
- Matthew 20:10
On receiving their pay, they began to grumble against the landowner.
- Matthew 20:11
‘These men who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the scorching heat of the day.’
- Matthew 20:12
But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Did you not agree with me on one denarius?
- Matthew 20:13
Take your pay and go. I want to give this last man the same as I gave you.
- Matthew 20:14