Matthew 20:15
World English Bible (WEB)
Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’
In context
13 “But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn’t you agree with me for a denarius?
14 Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you.
15 Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’
16 So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”
17 As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them,
Matthew 20:15 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’
- KJV King James Version
- Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
- ASV American Standard Version
- Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? or is thine eye evil, because I am good?
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- is it not lawful to me to do what I will in mine own? is thine eye evil because I am good?
- DBY Darby Translation
- is it not lawful for me to do what I will in my own affairs? Is thine eye evil because I am good?
- WBS Webster Bible
- Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? is thy eye evil because I am good?