Matthew 20:13
Good News Translation
'Listen, friend,' the owner answered one of them, 'I have not cheated you. After all, you agreed to do a day's work for one silver coin.

New Revised Standard Version
But he replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for the usual daily wage?

Contemporary English Version
The owner answered one of them, "Friend, I didn't cheat you. I paid you exactly what we agreed on.

New American Bible
He said to one of them in reply, ‘My friend, I am not cheating you. Did you not agree with me for the usual daily wage?

Douay-Rheims Bible
But he answering said to one of them: friend, I do thee no wrong: didst thou not agree with me for a penny?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But he answering said to one of them: friend, I do thee no wrong: didst thou not agree with me for a penny?

Friend.

Matthew 22:12 And he saith to him: Friend, how camest thou in hither not having on a wedding garment? But he was silent.

Matthew 26:50 And Jesus said to him: Friend, whereto art thou come? Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and held him.

I do.

Genesis 18:25 Far be it from thee to do this thing, and to slay the just with the wicked, and for the just to be in like case as the wicked; this is not beseeming thee: thou who judgest all the earth, wilt not make this judgment.

Job 34:8-12,17,18 Who goeth in company with them that work iniquity, and walketh with wicked men? . . .

Job 35:2 Doth thy thought seem right to thee, that thou shouldst say: I am more just than God?

Job 40:8 Wilt thou make void my judgment: and condemn me, that thou mayst be justified?

Romans 9:14,15,20 What shall we say then? Is there injustice with God? God forbid! . . .

Context
The Parable of the Workers
12Saying: These last have worked but one hour. and thou hast made them equal to us, that have borne the burden of the day and the heats. 13But he answering said to one of them: friend, I do thee no wrong: didst thou not agree with me for a penny? 14Take what is thine, and go thy way: I will also give to this last even as to thee.…
Cross References
Matthew 20:2
And having agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

Matthew 20:14
Take what is thine, and go thy way: I will also give to this last even as to thee.

Matthew 22:12
And he saith to him: Friend, how camest thou in hither not having on a wedding garment? But he was silent.

Matthew 26:50
And Jesus said to him: Friend, whereto art thou come? Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and held him.

Matthew 20:12
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