Matthew 20:15

The Parable Of The Workers In The Vineyard

¹⁴ Take what is yours and leave. I wish to give to the last workers the same as 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

When the seventh year, the year when payments on debts are canceled, is near, you might be stingy toward poor Israelites and give them nothing. Be careful not to think these worthless thoughts. The poor will complain to Jehovah about you, and you will be condemned for your sin.

Matthew 6:23

But if your eye is wicked, your body will be in darkness. If that light in you is really darkness, how great a darkness it must be.

Mark 7:22

coveting, wickedness, deceit, loose conduct, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.

Proverbs 23:6

Do not eat the bread of a selfish man nor desire his delicacies.

Romans 9:15-24

He says to Moses, I will show mercy to the one I choose to show mercy, and I will feel compassion for the one I choose to feel compassion.

Exodus 33:19

Jehovah said: I will make all my goodness pass in front of you. I will call out my name, JEHOVAH. I will be kind to anyone I want to. I will be merciful to anyone I want to.

Deuteronomy 7:6-8

You are a holy people to Jehovah your God. Jehovah your God has chosen you to be his own special people out of all the nations of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:54

The kindest and most sensitive man among you will become stingy toward his brother, the wife he loves, and the children he still has left.

1 Chronicles 28:4-5

Yet, from my entire family Jehovah God of Israel chose me to be king of Israel for as long as I live. He had chosen the tribe of Judah to lead Israel. From the families of Judah he chose my father's family. From among my father's sons he was pleased to make me king over all Israel.

Proverbs 28:22

He who hurries to be rich has an evil eye. He does not think poverty will come to him.

Jeremiah 27:5-7

I used my great strength and my powerful arm to make the earth along with the people and the animals on it. I give it to anyone I please.

Jonah 4:1-4

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly. He was angry!

Matthew 11:25

Then Jesus prayed: I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth. You have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and have revealed them to children. (Acts 2:36)

John 17:2

You have given him authority over all flesh that he may give everlasting life to the ones whom you have given him.

Acts 13:45

When the Jews saw the crowds they were filled with envy. They spoke against those things Paul spoke. They contradicted and blasphemed him.

Romans 11:5-6

Even so at this present time there is a remnant chosen according to God's grace.

1 Corinthians 4:7

For who made you superior to (different than) another? What do you have that you did not receive? If you did receive it, why do you brag, as if you did not receive it?

Ephesians 1:11

We were assigned as heirs predetermined according to his purpose. He works all things according to his direction and will.

Ephesians 2:1

You were once dead because of your trespasses and sins.

Ephesians 2:5

even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ. For by grace (loving-kindness) you have been saved.

James 1:18

Using his own will, he gave us birth through the word of truth. This way we would be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

James 5:9

Do not complain (utter a deep sigh) against one another, that you not be judged. Behold, the judge is standing at the door.