Don’t I have the right to do what I want with what is mine? Are you jealous because I’m generous?’

我的东西难道不可随我的意思用吗？因为我作好人，你就红了眼吗？’

难道我的东西不可随我的意思用吗？因为我作好人，你就眼红了吗？’

难道我的东西不可随我的意思用吗？因为我作好人，你就眼红了吗？’

难道我不可随意使用自己的钱吗？因为我慷慨，你就眼红吗？’

难道我不可以照自己的主意用我的财物吗？还是因为我仁慈你就嫉妒呢？’

难道我不可以用我的东西，做我愿意做的事吗？还是因为我好心，你就嫉妒了吗？’

我的東西難道不可隨我的意思用嗎？因為我作好人，你就紅了眼嗎？』

難道我的東西不可隨我的意思用嗎？因為我作好人，你就眼紅了嗎？』

難道我的東西不可隨我的意思用嗎？因為我作好人，你就眼紅了嗎？』

難道我不可隨意使用自己的錢嗎？因為我慷慨，你就眼紅嗎？』

難道我不可以照自己的主意用我的財物嗎？還是因為我仁慈你就嫉妒呢？’

我將我自己的東西按我自己的意思作，不可以麼？還是因我慈善、你就眼紅了麼？」

難道我不可以用我的東西，做我願意做的事嗎？還是因為我好心，你就嫉妒了嗎？』

以我之物、行我所欲、不亦宜乎、我為善、爾嫉視乎、

以我之物、行我所欲、不亦宜乎、我為善、爾怒目何也、

我之物、我不可隨意而用乎、因我為善、爾即相嫉而怒目乎、

吾豈不能從心所欲、處吾之所有乎？吾之慷慨、乃使爾側目耶？」

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

Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Do you feel cheated because I gave so freely to the others?’

Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’

Is it against the law for me to do what I want with my money? Should you be jealous because I am kind to others?’

Is it not lawful for me to do what I want with what is my own? Or is your eye envious because I am generous?’

Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things? Or is your eye evil because I am good?’

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

Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my business? Are you jealous because I’m generous?’

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

Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

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?’

For he tells Moses, I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.So then, it does not depend on human will or effort but on God who shows mercy.For the Scripture tells Pharaoh, I raised you up for this reason so that I may display my power in you and that my name may be proclaimed in the whole earth.So then, he has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy and he hardens whom he wants to harden.You will say to me, therefore,“ Why then does he still find fault? For who resists his will?”On the contrary, who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it,“ Why did you make me like this?”Or has the potter no right over the clay, to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor?And what if God, wanting to display his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath prepared for destruction?And what if he did this to make known the riches of his glory on objects of mercy that he prepared beforehand for glory—on us, the ones he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

Be careful that there isn’t this wicked thought in your heart,‘ The seventh year, the year of canceling debts, is near,’ and you are stingy toward your poor brother and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty.

But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light within you is darkness, how deep is that darkness!

adulteries, greed, evil actions, deceit, self-indulgence, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.

Jonah was greatly displeased and became furious.He prayed to the LORD,“ Please, LORD, isn’t this what I said while I was still in my own country? That’s why I fled toward Tarshish in the first place. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and one who relents from sending disaster.And now, LORD, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”The LORD asked,“ Is it right for you to be angry?”

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what Paul was saying, insulting him.

In him we have also received an inheritance, because we were predestined according to the plan of the one who works out everything in agreement with the purpose of his will,

At that time Jesus said,“ I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and revealed them to infants.

In the same way, then, there is also at the present time a remnant chosen by grace.Now if by grace, then it is not by works; otherwise grace ceases to be grace.

For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you didn’t receive? If, in fact, you did receive it, why do you boast as if you hadn’t received it?

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins

since you gave him authority over all people, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him.

The most sensitive and refined man among you will look grudgingly at his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children,

For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be his own possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.“ The LORD had his heart set on you and chose you, not because you were more numerous than all peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath he swore to your ancestors, he brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from the place of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Don’t eat a stingy person’s bread, and don’t desire his choice food,

He said,“ I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim the name‘ the LORD’ before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.”

A greedy one is in a hurry for wealth; he doesn’t know that poverty will come to him.

“ By my great strength and outstretched arm, I made the earth, and the people, and animals on the face of the earth. I give it to anyone I please.So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of my servant Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. I have even given him the wild animals to serve him.All nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson until the time for his own land comes, and then many nations and great kings will enslave him.

“ Yet the LORD God of Israel chose me out of all my father’s family to be king over Israel forever. For he chose Judah as leader, and from the house of Judah, my father’s family, and from my father’s sons, he was pleased to make me king over all Israel.And out of all my sons— for the LORD has given me many sons— he has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the LORD’s kingdom over Israel.

Brothers and sisters, do not complain about one another, so that you will not be judged. Look, the judge stands at the door!

By his own choice, he gave us birth by the word of truth so that we would be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

made us alive with Christ even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace!