You guys need to understand reasoning from analogy. You miss the point entirely as was pointed by PD.
It is about God letting people into Heaven who repent after a lifetime of sin or who repent earlier in their life. No one in Heaven is going to begrudge the latter repentent sinner so no discussion of contracting work and fairness of wage is relevant. The person who tried to live a good life by repenting earlier is not going to begrudge the latter repentant his longer time of sinning! They will both be rejoicing they made it into Heaven.
And incidentally, "that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto Salvation" Romans 10:9&10 Also Luke 12:8 "Also I say to you, whoever confesses Me before men, him the Son of Man also will confess before the angels of God. But he who denies Me before men will be denied before the angels of God." So mouth confession that Jesus is Lord AND accompanying action is important. This was because Roman soldiers would go up to Christians and ask them if Jesus was Lord and if they said yes they would kill them because they were putting him before Caesar who was supposed to be a God so it was considered treason. Hope this helps a little.
"...but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables"
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