Luke 15:17

Contemporary English Version 1995

Finally, he came to his senses and said, “My father's workers have plenty to eat, and here I am, starving to death!

Cross References

Ezekiel 18:28

They will think about what they've done and stop sinning, and so they won't be put to death.

Ephesians 5:14

Light shows up everything, just as the Scriptures say, “Wake up from your sleep and rise from death. Then Christ will shine on you.”

Jeremiah 31:19

When we were young, we strayed and sinned, but then we realized what we had done. We are ashamed and disgraced and want to return to you.”

Acts 2:37

When the people heard this, they were very upset. They asked Peter and the other apostles, “Friends, what should we do?”

Luke 16:23

He went to hell and was suffering terribly. When he looked up and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side,

Luke 8:35

The people went out to see what had happened, and when they came to Jesus, they also found the man. The demons had gone out of him, and he was sitting there at the feet of Jesus. He had clothes on and was in his right mind. But the people were terrified.

Lamentations 1:7

Her people recall the good life that once was theirs; now they suffer and are scattered. No one was there to protect them from their enemies who sneered when their city was taken.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

It's terribly unfair for the same thing to happen to each of us. We are mean and foolish while we live, and then we die.

Psalm 73:20

They will disappear, Lord, despised like a bad dream the morning after.

Psalm 119:59

I pay careful attention as you lead me, and I follow closely.

Hosea 2:7

She will run after her lovers, but not catch them; she will search, but not find them. Then she will say, “I'll return to my first husband. Life was better then.”

Luke 15:16

He would have been glad to eat what the pigs were eating, but no one gave him a thing.

Acts 12:11

Peter now realized what had happened, and he said, “I am certain that the Lord sent his angel to rescue me from Herod and from everything the Jewish leaders planned to do to me.”