Matthew 20:15

The Parable Of The Workers In The Vineyard

¹⁴ Take that which is thine and go, for I desire to give unto this last one, even as unto thee. 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 first shall be last, and the last first; for many are called, but few are chosen.

Is It Lawful

No

Deuteronomy 15:9

Keep thyself that there not be a thought of Belial in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother to give him nothing; for he shall cry unto the LORD against thee, and it shall be a sin unto thee.

Matthew 6:23

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

Mark 7:22

the thefts, the covetousness, the wickedness, the deceit, the lasciviousness, the evil eye, the slander, the pride, the unwiseness:

Proverbs 23:6

Do not eat the bread of anyone who has an evil eye, neither desire his dainty foods;

Romans 9:15-24

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

Exodus 33:19

And he replied, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name that I AM before thee; and I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy and will show clemency on whom I will show clemency.

Deuteronomy 7:6-8

For thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God; the LORD thy God has chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, different from all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:54

The man that 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 children which he shall leave,

1 Chronicles 28:4-5

However, the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever, 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 liked me to make me king over all Israel;

Proverbs 28:22

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

Jeremiah 27:5-7

I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom was upright in my eyes.

Jonah 4:1-4

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

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus answered and said, I praise thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and understanding and hast revealed them unto children.

John 17:2

as thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.

Acts 13:45

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy and spoke against that which Paul said, contradicting and blaspheming.

Romans 11:5-6

Even so then at this present time also, there is a remnant by the gracious election of God.

1 Corinthians 4:7

For who makes thee to judge? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, what dost thou glory of, as if thou hadst not received it?

Ephesians 1:11

in him in whom likewise we have obtained an inheritance, having had the way marked out beforehand according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his own will,

Ephesians 2:1

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

Ephesians 2:5

even as we were dead in sins, he has made us alive together with the Christ (by whose grace ye are saved)

James 1:18

He, of his own will, has begotten us with the word of truth, that we should be the firstfruits of his creatures.

James 5:9

Complain not one against another, brethren, that ye not be condemned: behold, the judge stands before the door.