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 saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
• Deut 15:9Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
• Matt 6:23But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
• Mark 7:22Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
• Jonah 4:1–4But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
• Exod 33:19And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
• Deut 7:6–8For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
• John 17:2As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
• Eph 1:11In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
• Rom 11:5–6Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
• Prov 23:6Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
• Acts 13:45But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
• Matt 11:25At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
• 1 Cor 4:7For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
• Eph 2:1And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
• Prov 28:22He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.
• Jer 27:5–7I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.
• Jas 1:18Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
• Deut 28:54So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
• Jas 5:9Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
• 1 Chr 28:4–5Howbeit the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah to be the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all Israel:
• Eph 2:5Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

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