Matthew 20:15 “Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are yo…”

Matthew 20:15

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

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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?’

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Is it not lawfull for me to do as I will with mine owne? Is thine eye euil, because I am good?

Darby Translation

is it not lawful for me to do what I will in my own affairs? Is thine eye evil because I am good?

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

Have I not the right to do as seems good to me in my house? or is your eye evil, because I am good?

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Cross references

“it”

Romans 9:15–24 Exodus 33:19 Deuteronomy 7:6–8 John 17:2 Matthew 11:25 1 Corinthians 4:7

Romans 9:15–24 · BSB

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 · BSB

“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.”

Deuteronomy 7:6–8 · BSB

For 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.

John 17:2 · BSB

For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him.

Matthew 11:25 · BSB

At 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.

1 Corinthians 4:7 · BSB

For 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?

“Is thine”

Deuteronomy 15:9 Matthew 6:23 Mark 7:22 Proverbs 23:6 Proverbs 28:22 Deuteronomy 28:54

Deuteronomy 15:9 · BSB

Be 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…

Matthew 6:23 · BSB

But 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!

Mark 7:22 · BSB

greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.

Proverbs 23:6 · BSB

Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;

Proverbs 28:22 · BSB

A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty awaits him.

Deuteronomy 28:54 · BSB

The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived,

“because”

Jonah 4:1–4 Acts 13:45

Jonah 4:1–4 · BSB

Jonah, however, was greatly displeased, and he became angry.

Acts 13:45 · BSB

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

14Take your pay and go. I want to give this last man the same as I gave you.

16So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”

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