¹⁴ ‘For many are invited, but few are chosen.’^(A)

²⁶ Those who heard this asked, ‘Then who can be saved? ’^(A)

²⁷ But Isaiah cries out concerning Israel,

⁸ For you are saved by grace^(A) through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift – 

²⁰ who in the past were disobedient, when God patiently waited in the days of Noah^(A) while the ark was being prepared. In it a few – that is, eight people^[a](B) – were saved through water.

⁴ But you have a few people^[a] in Sardis who have not defiled^[b] their clothes,^(A) and they will walk with me in white, because they are worthy.