Luke 15:29 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁹ But he answered his father, ‘Listen! For all these years I have been working like a slave for you, and I have never disobeyed your command, yet you have never given me even a young goat so that I might celebrate with my friends.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ But he answered his father, Look! These many years I have served you, and I have never disobeyed your command. Yet you never gave me [so much as] a [little] kid, that I might revel and feast and be happy and make merry with my friends;

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁹ But he answered and said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, and I never transgressed a commandment of thine; and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:

Common English Bible

²⁹ He answered his father, ‘Look, I’ve served you all these years, and I never disobeyed your instruction. Yet you’ve never given me as much as a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ And in response, he said to his father: 'Behold, I have been serving you for so many years. And I have never transgressed your commandment. And yet, you have never given me even a young goat, so that I might feast with my friends.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁹ And he answering, said to his father: Behold, for so many years do I serve thee, and I have never transgressed thy commandment, and yet thou hast never given me a kid to make merry with my friends:

Luke 15:29 Cross References

Isaiah 65:5

who say, “Keep to yourself; do not come near me, for I am too holy for you.” These are a smoke in my nostrils, a fire that burns all day long.

Zechariah 7:3

and to ask the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and the prophets, “Should I mourn and practice abstinence in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”

Malachi 3:14

You have said, “It is vain to serve God. What do we profit by keeping his command or by going about as mourners before the Lord of hosts?

Matthew 20:12

saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’

Luke 15:28

Then he became angry and refused to go in. His father came out and began to plead with him.

Luke 15:30

But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fatted calf for him!’

Luke 15:7

Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

Luke 17:10

So you also, when you have done all that you were ordered to do, say, ‘We are worthless slaves; we have done only what we ought to have done!’ ”

Luke 18:9

He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and regarded others with contempt:

Luke 19:21

for I was afraid of you, because you are a harsh man; you take what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’

Romans 10:3

Not knowing the righteousness of God and seeking to establish their own, they have not submitted to God’s righteousness.

Romans 3:20

For no human will be justified before him by deeds prescribed by the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Romans 3:27

Then what becomes of boasting? It is excluded. Through what kind of law? That of works? No, rather through the law of faith.

Romans 7:9

I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived

Revelation 2:17

Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To everyone who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give a white stone, and on the white stone is written a new name that no one knows except the one who receives it.

Revelation 3:17

For you say, ‘I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing.’ You do not realize that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.