Matthew 20:15

The Parable Of The Workers In The Vineyard

¹⁴ Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you. ¹⁵ Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?' ¹⁶ So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen."

Is It Lawful

No

Deuteronomy 15:9

Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, "The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand;" and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

Matthew 6:23

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

Mark 7:22

covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

Proverbs 23:6

Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don't crave his delicacies:

Romans 9:15-24

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

Exodus 33:19

He said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of Yahweh before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy."

Deuteronomy 7:6-8

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God: Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:54

The man who 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 whom he has remaining;

1 Chronicles 28:4-5

However Yahweh, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For he has chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.

Proverbs 28:22

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn't know that poverty waits for him.

Jeremiah 27:5-7

I have made the earth, the men and the animals that are on the surface of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems right to me.

Jonah 4:1-4

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.

Matthew 11:25

At that time, Jesus answered, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

John 17:2

even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

Acts 13:45

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

Romans 11:5-6

Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

1 Corinthians 4:7

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn't receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

Ephesians 1:11

in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;

Ephesians 2:1

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

Ephesians 2:5

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

James 1:18

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

James 5:9

Don't grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won't be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.