Matthew 20:15
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Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
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Be 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.
But 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!
greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.
“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.”
For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him.
For 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?
But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.
Do not eat the bread of a stingy man, and do not crave his delicacies;
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
In 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,