Matthew 20:15

The Parable Of The Workers In The Vineyard

¹⁴ Take thine and go. But I want to give to this last man, as to thee also. ¹⁵ Is it not permitted for me to do what I want with my own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? ¹⁶ So the last will be first, and the first last, for many are called but few chosen.

Is It Lawful

No

Deuteronomy 15:9

Beware that there not be a base thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand, and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou give him nothing, and he cry to LORD against thee, and it be

Matthew 6:23

But if thine eye is bad, thy whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in thee is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Mark 7:22

covetings, wickednesses, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, reviling, pride, foolishness.

Romans 9:15-24

For he says to Moses, I will be merciful to whom I may be merciful, and I will be compassionate to whomever I may be compassionate.

Exodus 33:19

And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and will proclaim the name of LORD before thee. {I will be merciful to whom I may be merciful, and I will be compassionate to whomever I may be compassionate (LXX/NT)}.

Deuteronomy 7:6-8

For thou are a holy people to LORD thy God. LORD thy God has chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:54

The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his sons whom he has remaining,

1 Chronicles 28:4-5

However LORD, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For he has chosen Judah to be ruler, and in the house of Judah, the house of my father, and among the sons of my father he

Proverbs 28:22

He who has an evil eye hastens after riches, and does not know that want shall come upon him.

Jeremiah 27:5-7

I have made the earth, the men and the beasts that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and I give it to whom it seems right to me.

Jonah 4:1-4

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.

Matthew 11:25

Jesus having responded at that time, said, I extol thee, O Father, Lord of the heaven and the earth, because thou hid these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to the childlike.

John 17:2

just as thou gave him authority over all flesh, so that all things that thou have given him, he will give them eternal life.

Acts 13:45

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled of envy, and contradicted the things spoken by Paul, contradicting and slandering.

Romans 11:5-6

So then also at this present time there has become a remnant according to the selection of grace.

1 Corinthians 4:7

For who makes thee different? And what have thou that thou did not receive? And also if thou received it, why do thou boast as not having received it?

Ephesians 1:11

in him in whom also we obtained an inheritance. Having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the deliberation of his will.

Ephesians 2:1

Even you, who were dead in trespasses and sins

Ephesians 2:5

even us being dead in the transgressions, he made alive together with the Christ (ye are saved by grace),

James 1:18

Having deliberated, he begot us by the word of truth for us to be a certain first fruit of his creatures.

James 5:9

Do not grumble, brothers, against each other, so that ye not be judged. Behold, the judge stands before the doors.