Matthew 20:13 · KJV
“But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?”
— Matthew 20:13
Saying, These last have wrought {but} one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day. {have wrought...: or, have continued one hour only}
Take {that} thine {is}, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.
Matthew 20 — Context
And when they had received {it}, they murmured against the goodman of the house,
12Saying, These last have wrought {but} one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day. {have wrought...: or, have continued one hour only}
13But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?
14Take {that} thine {is}, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.
15Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
Cross References
Matthew 22:12
Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast {him} into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 26:50
And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out {his} hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest's, and smote off his ear.
Romans 9:14-15
What shall we say then? {Is there} unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
Job 35:2
Thinkest thou this to be right, {that} thou saidst, My righteousness {is} more than God's?
Job 40:8
Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
Job 34:8-12
Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
Genesis 18:25
That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
Job 34:17-18
Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just? {govern: Heb. bind?}