Matthew 20:15 - Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ And is it not lawful for me to do what I will? Or is your eye wicked because I am good?'

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ Am I not permitted to do what I choose with what is mine? [Or do you begrudge my being generous?] Is your eye evil because I am good?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? or is thine eye evil, because I am good?

Common English Bible

¹⁵ Don’t I have the right to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you resentful because I’m generous?’

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will? is thy eye evil, because I am good?

English Standard Version 2016

¹⁵ Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’

Matthew 20:15 Cross References

Exodus 33:19

He responded: "I will show you all that is good, and I will call out with the name of the Lord before you. And I will take pity on whomever I will, and I will be lenient to whomever it will please me."

Proverbs 23:6

Do not eat with an envious man, and do not desire his foods.

Proverbs 28:22

A man who hurries to become rich, and who envies others, does not know that destitution will overwhelm him.

Jeremiah 18:6

"Am I not able to do with you, O house of Israel, just as this potter has done, says the Lord? Behold, like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.

Matthew 11:25

At that time, Jesus responded and said: "I acknowledge you, Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the prudent, and have revealed them to little ones.

Matthew 20:14

Take what is yours and go. But it is my will to give to this last, just as to you.

Matthew 6:23

But if your eye has been corrupted, your entire body will be darkened. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great will that darkness be!

Mark 7:22

thefts, avarice, wickedness, deceitfulness, homosexuality, an evil eye, blasphemy, self-exaltation, foolishness.

John 17:2

just as you have given authority over all flesh to him, so that he may give eternal life to all those whom you have given to him.

Acts 13:45

Then the Jews, seeing the crowds, were filled with envy, and they, blaspheming, contradicted the things that were being said by Paul.

1 Corinthians 4:7

For what distinguishes you from another? And what do you have that you have not received? But if you have received it, why do you glory, as if you had not received it?

Ephesians 1:11

In him, we too are called to our portion, having been predestined in accord with the plan of the One who accomplishes all things by the counsel of his will.

Ephesians 2:1

And you were once dead in your sins and offenses,

Ephesians 2:5

even when we were dead in our sins, has enlivened us together in Christ, by whose grace you have been saved.

Deuteronomy 15:9

Take care, lest perhaps an impious thought might creep within you, and you might say in your heart: 'The seventh year of remission approaches.' And so you might turn your eyes away from your poor brother, unwilling to lend to him what he has asked. If so, then he may cry out against you to the Lord, and it will be a sin for you.

Deuteronomy 28:54

The man who is pampered and very self-indulgent among you will vie with his own brother, and with the wife who lies at his bosom,

James 1:18

For by his own will he produced us through the Word of truth, so that we might be a kind of beginning among his creatures.

James 5:9

Brothers, do not complain against one another, so that you may not be judged. Behold, the judge stands before the door.