Matthew 20:15

The landowner asks whether he may do as he wishes with his own money, or whether their envy resents his generosity. The complaint is unmasked as an evil, grudging eye toward grace.

Cross-references · 22

• Rom 9:15–24For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
• Deut 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.
• Matt 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!
• Mark 7:22greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.
• Jonah 4:1–4Jonah, however, was greatly displeased, and he became angry.
• Exod 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.”
• Deut 7:6–8For 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 17:2For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him.
• Eph 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,
• Rom 11:5–6In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.
• Prov 23:6Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;
• Acts 13:45But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.
• Matt 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.
• 1 Cor 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?
• Eph 2:1And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
• Prov 28:22A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty awaits him.
• Jer 27:5–7By 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.
• Jas 1:18He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.
• Deut 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,
• Jas 5:9Do not complain about one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged. Look, the Judge is standing at the door!
• 1 Chr 28:4–5Yet 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.
• Eph 2:5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!

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