Matthew 20:15

The Parable Of The Workers In The Vineyard

¹⁴ Take [what is] yours and go! But I want to give to this last [person] [the same] as [I gave] to you also. ¹⁵ Is it not permitted for me to do whatever I want with [what is] mine? Or is your eye evil because I am generous?' ¹⁶ Thus the last will be first and the first last."

Is It Lawful

No

Deuteronomy 15:9

{Take care} so that there will not be {a thought of wickedness} in your heart, {saying}, 'The seventh year, the year of the remission of debt is near,' {and you view your needy neighbor with hostility}, and [so] you [do] not give to him, and he might cry [out] against you to Yahweh, and {you would incur guilt against yourself}.

Matthew 6:23

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. Therefore if the light in you is darkness, how great [is] the darkness!

Mark 7:22

adulteries, [acts of] greed, malicious [deeds], deceit, licentiousness, {envy}, abusive speech, pride, foolishness.

Proverbs 23:6

Do not eat the bread of {the stingy}, and do not desire his delicacies.

Romans 9:15-24

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

Exodus 33:19

And he said, "I myself will cause all my goodness to pass over before you, and I will proclaim the name of Yahweh before you, and I will be gracious [to] whom I will be gracious, and I will show compassion [to] whom I will show compassion."

Deuteronomy 7:6-8

For you [are] a holy people for Yahweh your God; Yahweh your God has chosen you to be for him a people, a treasured possession from [among] all the peoples that [are] on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:54

The most refined and the very sensitive man among you {shall be mean with his brother} and {against his beloved wife} and against the rest of his children that he has left over,

1 Chronicles 28:4-5

But Yahweh the God of Israel chose me from all of the house of my father to be king over Israel forever, for he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah, the house of my father, and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to reign over all Israel.

Proverbs 28:22

He who hurries for wealth is {a man with an evil eye}, but he does not know that poverty will come upon him.

Jeremiah 27:5-7

"I have made the earth with humankind and animals that [are] on the face of the earth by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and I give it to whomever is right in my eyes.

Jonah 4:1-4

And this {was greatly displeasing} to Jonah, and {he became furious}.

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus answered [and] said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these [things] from the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to young children.

John 17:2

just as you have given him authority over all flesh, in order that he would give eternal life to them--everyone whom you have given him.

Acts 13:45

But [when] the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and began contradicting what was being said by Paul [by] reviling [him].

Romans 11:5-6

So in this way also at the present time, there is a remnant {selected by grace}.

1 Corinthians 4:7

For who concedes you [superiority]? And what do you have that you did not receive? But if indeed you received [it], why do you boast as [if you] did not receive [it]?

Ephesians 1:11

in whom also we were chosen, having been predestined according to the purpose of the One who works all [things] according to the counsel of his will,

Ephesians 2:1

And you, {although you were dead} in your trespasses and sins,

Ephesians 2:5

and we being dead in trespasses, he made [us] alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved),

James 1:18

[By his] will he gave birth to us through the message of truth, so that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

James 5:9

Brothers, do not complain against one another, in order that you may not be judged. Behold, the judge stands before the doors!