Matthew 20:15

The Parable Of The Workers In The Vineyard

¹⁴ Take what belongs to you and go. I choose to give to this last worker as I give to you. ¹⁵ Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with what is my own? Or is your eye envious because I am generous?’ ¹⁶ So the last will be first, and the first last."

Is It Lawful

No

Deuteronomy 15:9

Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, 'The seventh year, the year of release is near,' and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the LORD against you, and you be guilty of sin.

Matthew 6:23

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

Mark 7:22

coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.

Proverbs 23:6

Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies,

Romans 9:15-24

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

Exodus 33:19

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

Deuteronomy 7:6-8

"For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:54

The man who is the most tender and refined among you will begrudge food to his brother, to the wife he embraces, and to the last of the children whom he has left,

1 Chronicles 28:4-5

Yet the LORD God of Israel chose me from all my father's house to be king over Israel forever. For he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah my father's house, and among my father's sons he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.

Proverbs 28:22

A stingy manhastens after wealth and does not know that poverty will come upon him.

Jeremiah 27:5-7

"It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever it seems right to me.

Jonah 4:1-4

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus declared, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children;

John 17:2

since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

Acts 13:45

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what was spoken by Paul, reviling him.

Romans 11:5-6

So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.

1 Corinthians 4:7

For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?

Ephesians 1:11

In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,

Ephesians 2:1

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins

Ephesians 2:5

even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have been saved--

James 1:18

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

James 5:9

Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door.