Luke 15:29

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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.

Cross References

Isaiah 65:5

They say: "Depart from me! Do not approach me, for you are unclean!" Such as these will be the smoke in my fury, a fire burning all day long.

Zechariah 7:3

to speak to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and to the prophets, saying: "Must there be weeping with me in the fifth month, and must I sanctify myself, as I have now done for many years?"

Malachi 3:14

And you have said, "What have we spoken against you?" You have said, "He labors in vain who serves God," and, "What advantage is it that we have kept his precepts, and that we have walked sorrowfully in the sight of the Lord of hosts?

Matthew 20:12

saying, 'These last have worked for one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who worked bearing the weight and heat of the day.'

Luke 15:28

Then he became indignant, and he was unwilling to enter. Therefore, his father, going out, began to plead with him.

Luke 15:30

Yet after this son of yours returned, who has devoured his substance with loose women, you have killed the fatted calf for him.'

Luke 15:7

I say to you, that there will be so much more joy in heaven over one sinner repenting, than over the ninety-nine just, who do not need to repent.

Luke 17:10

I think not. So too, when you have done all these things that have been taught to you, you should say: 'We are useless servants. We have done what we should have done.' "

Luke 18:9

Now about certain persons who consider themselves to be just, while disdaining others, he told also this parable:

Luke 19:21

For I feared you, because you are an austere man. You take up what you did not lay down, and you reap what you did not sow.'

Romans 10:3

For, being ignorant of the justice of God, and seeking to establish their own justice, they have not subjected themselves to the justice of God.

Romans 3:20

For in his presence no flesh shall be justified by the works of the law. For knowledge of sin is through the law.

Romans 3:27

So then, where is your self-exaltation? It is excluded. Through what law? That of works? No, but rather through the law of faith.

Romans 7:9

Now I lived for some time apart from the law. But when the commandment had arrived, sin was revived,

Revelation 2:17

Whoever has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the Churches. To him who prevails, I will give the hidden manna. And I will give to him a white emblem, and on the emblem, a new name has been written, which no one knows, except the one who receives it.

Revelation 3:17

For you declare, 'I am wealthy, and I have been enriched further, and I have need of nothing.' And you do not know that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.