15 (A)Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or (B)do you begrudge my generosity?’[a]

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  1. Matthew 20:15 Or is your eye bad because I am good?

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

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Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your (A)eye look grudgingly[a] on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he (B)cry to the Lord against you, and (C)you be guilty of sin.

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  1. Deuteronomy 15:9 Or be evil; also verse 10

Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought: “The seventh year, the year for canceling debts,(A) is near,” so that you do not show ill will(B) 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.(C)

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22 A (A)stingy man[a] (B)hastens after wealth
    and does not know that (C)poverty will come upon him.

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  1. Proverbs 28:22 Hebrew A man whose eye is evil

22 The stingy are eager to get rich
    and are unaware that poverty awaits them.(A)

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