15Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?'


In Context

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 of the work and the heat of the day.'

13 "But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn't you agree to work for a denarius?

14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the man who was hired last the same as I gave you.

15 Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?'

16 "So the last will be first, and the first will be last."

17 Now as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside and said to them,

Matthew 20:15 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:15Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:15Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will? is thy eye evil, because I am good?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:15Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? or is thine eye evil, because I am good?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:15is it not lawful for me to do what I will in my own affairs? Is thine eye evil because I am good?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:15Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? or is thine eye evil, because I am good?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:15Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? is thy eye evil because I am good?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:15Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?'

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:15is it not lawful to me to do what I will in mine own? is thine eye evil because I am good?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:15Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? Is your eye evil, because I am good?