Bible verse
Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
Matthew 20:15 · BSB
The verses around it, from Matthew 20.
11 On receiving their pay, they began to grumble against the landowner.
12 ‘These men who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the scorching heat of the day.’
13 But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Did you not agree with me on one denarius?
14 Take your pay and go. I want to give this last man the same as I gave you.
15 Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
16 So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”
17 As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, He took the twelve disciples aside and said,
18 “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes. They will condemn Him to death
19 and will deliver Him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. And on the third day He will be raised to life.”
KJV
Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
ASV
Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? or is thine eye evil, because I am good?
ERV
Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? or is thine eye evil, because I am good?
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