Luke 15:29

A Conservative Version

But having answered, he said to his father, Lo, so many years do I serve thee, and I never passed by a commandment of thine, and yet thou never gave me a goat that I might be merry with my friends.

Cross References

Revelation 3:17

Because thou say, I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing, and do not know that thou are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.

Revelation 2:17

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the congregations. To him who overcomes, I will give him to eat of the hidden manna. And I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which none knows

Romans 10:3

For not understanding the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness of God.

Romans 7:9

And I was alive once apart from law, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

Luke 19:21

For I was afraid of thee because thou are an austere man. Thou take up what thou did not lay down, and reap what thou did not sow.

Luke 18:9

And he also spoke this parable to some of those who were persuaded in themselves that they were righteous, and disdained other men.

Luke 17:10

Thus ye also, when ye did all the things that were commanded you, say, We are unprofitable bondmen, because we have done what we are obligated to do.

Luke 15:7

I say to you, that thus there will be joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous men who have no need of repentance.

Matthew 20:12

saying, These last did one hour, and thou have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the heat.

Malachi 3:14

Ye have said, It is vain to serve God, and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before LORD of hosts?

Zechariah 7:3

[and] to speak to the priests of the house of LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?

Isaiah 65:5

who say, Stand by thyself, do not come near to me, for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all the day.

Romans 3:27

Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what law, of works? No, but by a law of faith.

Romans 3:20

Because from works of law no flesh will be made right before him, for through law is knowledge of sin.

Luke 15:28

But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore, his father having come out, he called him.

Luke 15:30

But when this thy son came, who has devoured thy living with harlots, thou killed for him the fatted calf.