Luke 15:17 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁷ But having come to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I am perishing with hunger!”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Then when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father have enough food, and [even food] to spare, but I am perishing (dying) here of hunger!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger!

Common English Bible

¹⁷ When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired hands have more than enough food, but I’m starving to death!

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And returning to his senses, he said: 'How many hired hands in my father's house have abundant bread, while I perish here in famine!

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ And returning to himself, he said: How many hired servants in my father's house abound with bread, and I here perish with hunger?

Luke 15:17 Cross References

Psalm 119:59

I have thought upon my ways, And turned my feet to Your witnesses.

Psalm 73:20

יהוה, when You awake You despise their image, As one does a dream after waking.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun: there is one event to all. Truly the hearts of the sons of men are filled with evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and then – to the dead!

Jeremiah 31:19

For after my turning back, I repented. And after I was instructed, I struck myself on the thigh. I was ashamed, even humiliated, for I bore the reproach of my youth.’

Lamentations 1:7

In the days of her affliction and wandering, Yerushalayim remembered all her precious matters She had in the days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the enemy, With no one to help her, The adversaries saw her, They mocked at her destruction.

Ezekiel 18:28

“Because he sees and turns away from all the transgressions which he has done, he shall certainly live, he shall not die.

Hosea 2:7

“And she shall pursue her lovers but not overtake them, and shall seek them but not find them. Then she shall say, ‘Let me go and return to my first husband, for then it was better for me than now.’

Luke 15:16

“And he was longing to fill his stomach with the pods which the pigs were eating, and no one gave to him.

Luke 16:23

“And while suffering tortures in She’ol, having lifted up his eyes, he saw Aḇraham far away, and El‛azar in his bosom.

Luke 8:35

So they came out to see what had taken place, and came to יהושע, and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at the feet of יהושע, dressed, and in his right mind. And they were afraid.

Acts 12:11

And when Kĕpha had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that יהוה has sent His messenger, and delivered me from the hand of Herodes and from all the Yehuḏi people were anticipating.”

Acts 2:37

And having heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Kĕpha and the rest of the emissaries, “Men, brothers, what shall we do?”

Ephesians 5:14

That is why He says, “Wake up, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Messiah shall shine on you.”