Matthew 20:15

The Parable Of The Workers In The Vineyard

¹⁴ Take what’s yours and go. I want to give this last man the same as I gave you. ¹⁵ Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my business? Are you jealous because I’m generous?’ ¹⁶ “So the last will be first, and the first last.”

Is It Lawful

No

Deuteronomy 15:9

Be careful that there isn’t this wicked thought in your heart, ‘The seventh year, the year of canceling debts, is near,’ and you are stingy toward your poor brother and give him nothing. He will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty.

Matthew 6:23

But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light within you is darkness—how deep is that darkness!

Mark 7:22

adulteries, greed, evil actions, deceit, promiscuity, stinginess, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

Proverbs 23:6

Don’t eat a stingy person’s bread,
and don’t desire his choice food,

Romans 9:15-24

For He tells Moses:

I will show mercy
to whom I will show mercy,
and I will have compassion
on whom I will have compassion.

Exodus 33:19

He said, “I will cause all My goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim the name Yahweh before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.”

Deuteronomy 7:6-8

For you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be His own possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:54

The most sensitive and refined man among you will look grudgingly at his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children,

1 Chronicles 28:4-5

“Yet the Lord God of Israel chose me out of all my father’s household to be king over Israel forever. For He chose Judah as leader, and from the house of Judah, my father’s household, and from my father’s sons, He was pleased to make me king over all Israel.

Proverbs 28:22

A greedy man is in a hurry for wealth;
he doesn’t know that poverty will come to him.

Jeremiah 27:5-7

By My great strength and outstretched arm, I made the earth, and the people, and animals on the face of the earth. I give it to anyone I please.

Jonah 4:1-4

But Jonah was greatly displeased and became furious.

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 learned and revealed them to infants.

John 17:2

for You gave Him authority
over all flesh;
so He may give eternal life
to all You have given Him.

Acts 13:45

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

Romans 11:5-6

In the same way, then, there is also at the present time a remnant chosen by grace.

1 Corinthians 4:7

For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you didn’t receive? If, in fact, you did receive it, why do you boast as if you hadn’t received it?

Ephesians 1:11

We have also received an inheritance in Him, predestined according to the purpose of the One who works out everything in agreement with the decision of His will,

Ephesians 2:1

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins

Ephesians 2:5

made us alive with the Messiah even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace!

James 1:18

By His own choice, He gave us a new birth by the message of truth so that we would be the firstfruits of His creatures.

James 5:9

Brothers, do not complain about one another, so that you will not be judged. Look, the judge stands at the door!