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Christian Standard Bible ®
Matthew 22:14
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- InternationalParallel Translations
For many are called, but few are chosen.
For many are called, but few are chosen.
For many are called, but few are chosen."
"For many are called, but few are chosen."
"Yes, many are invited, but only a few are chosen."
"For many are called (invited, summoned), but few are chosen."
"For many are called, but few are chosen."
For many are called, but few are chosen."
For many are called, but few are chosen."
Many are invited, but only a few are chosen.
for many are invited, but few are chosen."
For many are called ones, but few chosen ones.
"Yes, many people are invited. But only a few are chosen."
For many are called, but fewe chosen.
For many are invited, and few are chosen.
And Jesus concluded, "Many are invited, but few are chosen."
For many are called but few are chosen."
For many are called, but few chosen.
For many are called, but few chosen.
For out of all to whom the good news has come, only a small number will get salvation.
For many are called, but few chosen."
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For many are the called, but few the chosen.
For the called are many, and the chosen are few.
For many be called, but fewe are chosen.
For many are called, but few chosen.
For many are called, but few chosen."
For many are called, but few chosen.
"For there are many called, but few chosen."
For many ben clepid, but fewe ben chosun.
For many are called, but few chosen.
For many are called, but few [are] chosen.
For many are called, but few are chosen."
"For many are called, but few are chosen."
"For many are called, but few are chosen."
For many are called but few are chosen."
For many are called, but few are chosen."
For, many, are called, but, few, chosen.
For many are called, but few are chosen.
For many are called, but few are chosen."
For many are called and feawe be chosen.
for many are called, and few chosen.'
For many be called, but few are chose.
thus many are called, but few are converted.
"That's what I mean when I say, ‘Many get invited; only a few make it.'"
"Many will be invited, but only a few will come."
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Matthew 7:13, Matthew 7:14, Matthew 20:16, Luke 13:23, Luke 13:24
Reciprocal: Esther 2:4 - let the maiden
Cross-References
On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.
Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there to worship; then we’ll come back to you.”
Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” Then the two of them walked on together.
Then Abraham reached out and took the knife to slaughter his son.
Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught in the thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.
And Abraham named that place The Lord Will Provide, so today it is said: “It will be provided on the Lord’s mountain.”
I will indeed bless you and make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the city gates of their enemies.
and named the place Bethel, though previously the city was named Luz.
Jacob then named the place Peniel, “For I have seen God face to face,” he said, “yet my life has been spared.”
And Moses built an altar and named it, “The Lord Is My Banner.”
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For many are called, but few chosen. See Gill "Mt 20:16"
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Many are called, but few are chosen - Our Saviour often uses this expression. It was probably proverbial. The Jews had been called, but few of them had been chosen to life. The great mass of the nation was wicked, and they showed by their lives that they were not chosen to salvation. The Gentiles also were invited to be saved, Isaiah 45:22. Nation after nation has been called; but few, few have yet showed that they were real Christians, the elect of God. It is also true that many who are in the church may prove to be without the wedding garment, and show at last that they were not the chosen of God. This remark in the 14th verse is the inference from the âwhole parable,â and not of the part about the man without the wedding garment. It does not mean, therefore, that the great mass in the church are simply called and not chosen, or are hypocrites; but the great mass in âthe human family,â in the time of Christ, who had been âcalled,â had rejected the mercy of God.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Matthew 22:14. Many are called, c.] This verse is wanting in one of Colbert's MSS., marked 33 in Griesbach. See the note on Matthew 20:16. Many are called by the preaching of the Gospel into the outward communion of the Church of Christ but few, comparatively, are chosen to dwell with God In glory, because they do not come to the master of the feast for a marriage garment-for that holiness without which none can see the Lord. This is an allusion to the Roman custom of raising their militia; all were mustered, but only those were chosen to serve, who were found proper. See the note on Matthew 20:16. Reader! examine thy soul, and make sure work for eternity!