Matthew 20:15

The Parable Of The Workers In The Vineyard

¹⁴ take your due, and be gone: I will give the last the same I give you. ¹⁵ can't I do what I will with my own? because I am bountiful, are you invidious? ¹⁶ thus the last shall be first, and the first last: for though many are invited, few have precedence.

Is It Lawful

No

Matthew 6:23

but if your eye be bad, your whole body will be dark: if therefore that, which should be light to you, be dark; how great is that darkness?

Mark 7:22

avarice, malice, fraud, impudence, envy, scandal, pride, vanity.

Romans 9:15-24

God forbid. for he saith to Moses, "I will show favour to whom I will show favour, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."

Matthew 11:25

At the same time Jesus, continuing his discourses, said, "I thank thee, O father, Lord of heaven and earth, for having revealed unto babes what thou hast hid from the wise and prudent.

John 17:2

for thou hast given him power over all men, that he might give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.

Acts 13:45

when the Jews saw such a crowd, they were fill'd with resentment, and oppos'd what Paul had advanc'd, even to blasphemy.

Romans 11:5-6

in like manner at this time there is also a remnant chosen by the divine favour;

1 Corinthians 4:7

for who has distinguish'd thee above another? or what have you, that you did not receive? now if you did receive it, why do you glory as if you had not received it?

Ephesians 1:11

It is by him, that we have a share in the inheritance, which was before allotted to us, in consequence of his design, who executes the whole plan, as he himself had contriv'd it:

Ephesians 2:1

When you were in that destructive state of transgression and sin,

Ephesians 2:5

did raise us all, who were in that deadly state of sin, to life by Christ, for by grace ye are saved:

James 1:18

'tis he that has voluntarily renew'd us by the oracles of truth, that we might be the first converts of the new creation.

James 5:9

don't repine, my brethren, against one another, for fear you should be condemn'd. behold, the judge is at the gate.