Matthew 20:15 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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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?’

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?'

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?

Matthew 20:15 Cross References

Exodus 33:19

And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim before you my name ‘The Lord’; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.

Proverbs 23:6

Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies;

Proverbs 28:22

A miserly man hastens after wealth, and does not know that want will come upon him.

Jeremiah 18:6

“O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? says the Lord. Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus declared, “I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes;

Matthew 20:14

Take what belongs to you, and go; I choose to give to this last as I give to you.

Matthew 6:23

but if your eye is not sound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Mark 7:22

coveting, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.

John 17:2

since thou hast given him power over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him.

Acts 13:45

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted what was spoken by Paul, and reviled him.

1 Corinthians 4:7

For who sees anything different in you? What have you that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if it were not a gift?

Ephesians 1:11

In him, according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will,

Ephesians 2:1

And you he made alive, when you were dead through the trespasses 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),

Deuteronomy 15:9

Take heed lest there be a base thought in your heart, and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye be hostile to your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the Lord against you, and it be sin in you.

Deuteronomy 28:54

The man who is the most tender and delicately bred among you will grudge food to his brother, to the wife of his bosom, and to the last of the children who remain to him;

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

Do not grumble, brethren, against one another, that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the doors.