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 said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
• Deut 15:9Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand”; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
• Matt 6:23But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
• Mark 7:22covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
• Jonah 4:1–4But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
• Exod 33:19He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”
• Deut 7:6–8For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
• John 17:2even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
• Eph 1:11in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will;
• Rom 11:5–6Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
• Prov 23:6Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies:
• Acts 13:45But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.
• Matt 11:25At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.
• 1 Cor 4:7For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
• Eph 2:1You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,
• Prov 28:22A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.
• Jer 27:5–7‘I have made the earth, the men and the animals that are on the surface of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems right to me.
• Jas 1:18Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
• Deut 28:54The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining;
• Jas 5:9Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
• 1 Chr 28:4–5However Yahweh, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For he has chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.
• Eph 2:5even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

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