And he said to him, Son, you are ever with me, and all that I have is yours.
But as soon as this your son was come, which has devoured your living with harlots, you have killed for him the fatted calf.
It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this your brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
And the servant stays not in the house for ever: but the Son stays ever.
I say then, Has God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Or who has first given to him, and it shall be recompensed to him again?
Who are Israelites; to whom pertains the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;