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

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

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 says to Moses,“ I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.For Scripture says to Pharaoh:“ I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.One of you will say to me:“ Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?”But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?“ Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,‘ Why did you make me like this?’”Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath— prepared for destruction?What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory—even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought:“ The seventh year, the year for canceling debts, is near,” so that you do not show ill will toward the needy among your fellow Israelites and give them nothing. They may then appeal to the Lord against you, and you will be found guilty of sin.

But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.

But to Jonah this seemed very wrong, and he became angry.He prayed to the Lord,“ Isn’t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity.Now, Lord, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live.”But the Lord replied,“ Is it right for you to be angry?”

When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy. They began to contradict what Paul was saying and heaped abuse on him.

In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity 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 learned, and revealed them to little children.

So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace.

For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?

As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,

For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him.

Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children,

For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.The Lord did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.But it was because the Lord loved you and kept the oath he swore to your ancestors that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Do not eat the food of a begrudging host, do not crave his delicacies;

And the Lord said,“ I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the Lord, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

The stingy are eager to get rich and are unaware that poverty awaits them.

With my great power and outstretched arm I made the earth and its people and the animals that are on it, and I give it to anyone I please.Now I will give all your countries into the hands of my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; I will make even the wild animals subject to him.All nations will serve him and his son and his grandson until the time for his land comes; then many nations and great kings will subjugate him.

“ Yet the Lord, the God of Israel, chose me from my whole family to be king over Israel forever. He chose Judah as leader, and from the tribe of Judah he chose my family, and from my father’s sons he was pleased to make me king over all Israel.Of all my sons— and the Lord has given me many— he has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.

Don’t grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, or you will be judged. The Judge is standing at the door!

He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions— it is by grace you have been saved.