Matthew 20:15

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’”

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BSBPD

“Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? or is thine eye evil, because I am good?”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“is it not lawful to me to do what I will in mine own? is thine eye evil because I am good?”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Matthew 20:15 — 22 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 33:19“I will cause all My goodness to pass before you,” the LORD replied, “and I will proclaim My name—the LORD—in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
  2. Deuteronomy 7:6For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.
  3. Deuteronomy 15:9Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” so that you look upon your poor brother begrudgingly and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
  4. Deuteronomy 28:54The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived,
  5. 1 Chronicles 28:4Yet the LORD, the God of Israel, chose me out of all my father’s house to be king over Israel forever. For He chose Judah as leader, and from the house of Judah He chose my father’s household, and from my father’s sons He was pleased to make me king over all Israel.
  6. Proverbs 23:6Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;
  7. Proverbs 28:22A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty awaits him.
  8. Jeremiah 27:5By My great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth and the men and beasts on the face of it, and I give it to whom I please.
  9. Jonah 4:1Jonah, however, was greatly displeased, and he became angry.
  10. Matthew 6:23But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
  11. Matthew 11:25At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.
  12. Mark 7:22greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.
  13. John 17:2For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him.
  14. Acts 13:45But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.
  15. Romans 9:15For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
  16. Romans 11:5In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.
  17. 1 Corinthians 4:7For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?
  18. Ephesians 1:11In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,
  19. Ephesians 2:1And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
  20. Ephesians 2:5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!
  21. James 1:18He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.
  22. James 5:9Do not complain about one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged. Look, the Judge is standing at the door!

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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