Matthew 20:15

The Parable Of The Workers In The Vineyard

¹⁴ Take what is yours, and go away; it is my pleasure to give to this last, even as to you. ¹⁵ Have I not the right to do as seems good to me in my house? or is your eye evil, because I am good? ¹⁶ So the last will be first, and the first last.

Is It Lawful

No

Deuteronomy 15:9

And see that there is no evil thought in your heart, moving you to say to yourself, The seventh year, the year of forgiveness is near; and so looking coldly on your poor countryman you give him nothing; and he will make an outcry to the Lord against you, and it will be judged as sin in you.

Matthew 6:23

But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!

Mark 7:22

The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts:

Proverbs 23:6

Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:

Romans 9:15-24

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

Exodus 33:19

And he said, I will make all the light of my being come before you, and will make clear to you what I am; I will be kind to those to whom I will be kind, and have mercy on those on whom I will have mercy.

Deuteronomy 7:6-8

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:54

That man among you who is soft and used to comfort will be hard and cruel to his brother, and to his dear wife, and to of those his children who are still living;

1 Chronicles 28:4-5

Though the Lord, the God of Israel, took me out of all my father's family, to be king over Israel for ever, marking out Judah to be chief, and, of the people of Judah, my father's family; and among the sons of my father he was pleased to make me king over all Israel;

Proverbs 28:22

He who is ever desiring wealth goes running after money, and does not see that need will come on him.

Jeremiah 27:5-7

I have made the earth, and man and beast on the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I will give it to anyone at my pleasure.

Jonah 4:1-4

But this seemed very wrong to Jonah, and he was angry.

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus made answer and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children.

John 17:2

Even as you gave him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all those whom you have given to him.

Acts 13:45

But when the Jews saw such a great number of people, they were full of envy and said evil words against Paul's preaching.

Romans 11:5-6

In the same way, there are at this present time some who are marked out by the selection of grace.

1 Corinthians 4:7

For who made you better than your brother? or what have you that has not been given to you? but if it has been given to you, what cause have you for pride, as if it had not been given to you?

Ephesians 1:11

In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs;

Ephesians 2:1

And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,

Ephesians 2:5

Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),

James 1:18

Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.

James 5:9

Say no hard things against one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged; see, the judge is waiting at the doors.