Matthew 20:15

Good News Translation

Don't I have the right to do as I wish with my own money? Or are you jealous because I am generous?’”

Cross References

Exodus 33:19

The Lord answered, “I will make all my splendor pass before you and in your presence I will pronounce my sacred name. I am the Lord, and I show compassion and pity on those I choose.

Proverbs 23:6

Don't eat at the table of a stingy person or be greedy for the fine food he serves.

Proverbs 28:22

Selfish people are in such a hurry to get rich that they do not know when poverty is about to strike.

Jeremiah 18:6

“Don't I have the right to do with you people of Israel what the potter did with the clay? You are in my hands just like clay in the potter's hands.

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus said, “Father, Lord of heaven and earth! I thank you because you have shown to the unlearned what you have hidden from the wise and learned.

Matthew 20:14

Now take your pay and go home. I want to give this man who was hired last as much as I gave you.

Matthew 6:23

but if your eyes are no good, your body will be in darkness. So if the light in you is darkness, how terribly dark it will be!

Mark 7:22

commit adultery, be greedy, and do all sorts of evil things; deceit, indecency, jealousy, slander, pride, and folly—

John 17:2

For you gave him authority over all people, so that he might give eternal life to all those you gave him.

Acts 13:45

When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy; they disputed what Paul was saying and insulted him.

1 Corinthians 4:7

Who made you superior to others? Didn't God give you everything you have? Well, then, how can you boast, as if what you have were not a gift?

Ephesians 1:11

All things are done according to God's plan and decision; and God chose us to be his own people in union with Christ because of his own purpose, based on what he had decided from the very beginning.

Ephesians 2:1

In the past you were spiritually dead because of your disobedience and sins.

Ephesians 2:5

that while we were spiritually dead in our disobedience he brought us to life with Christ. It is by God's grace that you have been saved.

Deuteronomy 15:9

Do not refuse to lend them something, just because the year when debts are canceled is near. Do not let such an evil thought enter your mind. If you refuse to make the loan, they will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be held guilty.

Deuteronomy 28:54

Even the most refined man of noble birth will become so desperate during the siege that he will eat some of his own children because he has no other food. He will not even give any to his brother or to the wife he loves or to any of his children who are left.

James 1:18

By his own will he brought us into being through the word of truth, so that we should have first place among all his creatures.

James 5:9

Do not complain against one another, my friends, so that God will not judge you. The Judge is near, ready to appear.