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 said, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to infants.

And He said, “I Myself will make all My goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of the Lord before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show compassion on whom I will show compassion.”

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Yet, the Lord, the God of Israel, chose me from all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For He has chosen Judah to be a leader; and in the house of Judah, my father’s house, 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 men and the beasts which are on the face of the earth by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and I will give it to the one who is pleasing in My sight.

even as You gave Him authority over all flesh, that to all whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life.

For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

In the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time a remnant according to God’s gracious choice.

For who regards you as superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

also we

have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will,

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

In the exercise of His will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits among His creatures.

Is thine

But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Beware that there is no base thought in your heart, saying, ‘The seventh year, the year of remission, is near,’ and your eye is hostile toward your poor brother, and you give him nothing; then he may cry to the Lord against you, and it will be a sin in you.

The man who is refined and very delicate among you shall be hostile toward his brother and toward the wife he cherishes and toward the rest of his children who remain,

Do not eat the bread of a selfish man,

Or desire his delicacies;

A man with an evil eye hastens after wealth
And does not know that want will come upon him.

deeds of coveting and wickedness, as well as deceit, sensuality,

envy, slander, pride and foolishness.

Do not complain, brethren, against one another, so that you yourselves may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing

right at the door.

Because

But it greatly displeased Jonah and he became angry.

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began contradicting the things spoken by Paul, and were blaspheming.

General references

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen?

Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock and given them to me.

and you shall take possession of the land and live in it, for I have given the land to you to possess it.

“Can I not, O house of Israel, deal with you as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.

But it greatly displeased Jonah and he became angry.

And he said to him, ‘Son, you have always been with me, and all that is mine is yours.

Or who has first given to Him

that it might be paid back to him again?