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

Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.

But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?

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.

And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,

But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.

And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.

So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.

They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.

And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.

And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.

And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,

And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.

Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?

And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.

And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;

And ye shall know that I am the LORD when I have wrought with you for my name"s sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.

And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers.

I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.

For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.

As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.

And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:

Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD.

And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.

And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.