Matthew 20:15

The Parable Of The Workers In The Vineyard

¹⁴ Take what is yours and go. I want to give to this last man the same as I gave to you. ¹⁵ Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?' ¹⁶ So the last will be first, and the first last."

Is It Lawful

No

Deuteronomy 15:9

Be careful lest you entertain the wicked thought that the seventh year, the year of cancellation of debts, has almost arrived, and your attitude be wrong toward your impoverished fellow Israelite and you do not lend him anything; he will cry out to the Lord against you and you will be regarded as having sinned.

Matthew 6:23

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

Mark 7:22

adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly.

Proverbs 23:6

Do not eat the food of a stingy person, do not crave 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 the Lord said, "I will make all my goodness pass before your face, and I will proclaim the Lord by name before you; I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy."

Deuteronomy 7:6-8

For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:54

The man among you who is by nature tender and sensitive will turn against his brother, his beloved wife, and his remaining children.

1 Chronicles 28:4-5

The Lord God of Israel chose me out of my father's entire family to become king over Israel and have a permanent dynasty. Indeed, he chose Judah as leader, and my father's family within Judah, and then he picked me out from among my father's sons and made me king over all Israel.

Proverbs 28:22

The stingy person hastens after riches and does not know that poverty will overtake him.

Jeremiah 27:5-7

"I made the earth and the people and animals on it by my mighty power and great strength, and I give it to whomever I see fit.

Jonah 4:1-4

This displeased Jonah terribly and he became very angry.

Matthew 11:25

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

John 17:2

just as you have given him authority over all humanity, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him.

Acts 13:45

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

Romans 11:5-6

So in the same way at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.

1 Corinthians 4:7

For who concedes you any superiority? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as though you did not?

Ephesians 1:11

In Christ we too have been claimed as God's own possession, since we were predestined according to the one purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will

Ephesians 2:1

And although you were dead in your transgressions and sins,

Ephesians 2:5

even though we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ -- by grace you are saved! --

James 1:18

By his sovereign plan he gave us birth through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

James 5:9

Do not grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be judged. See, the judge stands before the gates!