Matthew 20:15

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Summary

Matthew 20:15

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?

It

Is thine

James 5:9

Because

Jonah 4:1

Acts 13:45

General references

Romans 11:35

Bible References

It

At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hid these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them unto babes.

And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.

For you are a holy people unto the LORD your God: the LORD your God has chosen you to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

However the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever: for he has chosen Judah to be the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel:

I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed right unto me.

As you have given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as you have given him.

For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

For who makes you to differ from another? and what have you that you did not receive? now if you did receive it, why do you glory, as if you had not received it?

In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his own will:

And you has he made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins:

Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

Is thine

But if your eye be evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you be darkness, how great is that darkness!

Beware that there be not a thought in your wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cries unto the LORD against you, and it be sin in you.

So that the man that is gentle among you, and very refined, his eye shall show no compassion toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave behind:

Eat not the bread of him that is stingy, neither desire you his delicacies:

He that hastens to be rich has an evil eye, and considers not that poverty shall come upon him.

Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

Murmur not one against another, brethren, lest you be judged: behold, the judge stands before the door.

Because

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spoke against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

General references

And the LORD said unto Cain, Why are you angry? and why is your countenance fallen?

Thus God has taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

And you shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.

O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? says the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

And he said unto him, Son, you are ever with me, and all that I have is yours.

Or who has first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?