Bible Verses

Don’t I have the right to do what I want with what’s mine? Why are you jealous when I am kind?

So, take what is yours and leave. I want to give the last the same as I give to you.

The owner said to one of them, ‘Friend, I have not been unjust to you. Did we not agree on one silver coin per day?

They said, ‘These last ones hardly worked an hour; yet you have treated them the same as us who have endured the heavy work of the day and the heat.’

But they also received one silver coin. Upon receiving it, they began complaining about the landowner.

When it was the first person’s turn, they thought they would get more.

Those who had arrived to work at the eleventh hour came forward and each received a silver coin.

When evening arrived, the vineyard owner told his manager, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with the last and ending with the first.’

They replied, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ The master said, ‘Go and work in my vineyard.’

Again, he went out at the last working hour—the eleventh—and saw others standing around. So he asked them, ‘Why do you stand idle all day?’