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Luke 15:29

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And he answering, said to his father: Behold, for so many years do I serve thee, and I have never transgressed thy commandment, and yet thou hast never given me a kid to make merry with my friends:

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Because thou sayest: I am rich, and made wealthy, and have need of nothing: and knowest not, that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.

He, that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches: To him that overcometh, I will give the hidden manna, and will give him a white counter, and in the counter, a new name written, which no man knoweth, but he that receiveth it.

For they, not knowing the justice of God, and seeking to establish their own, have not submitted themselves to the justice of God.

And I lived some time without the law. But when the commandment came, sin revived,

For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up what thou didst not lay down, and thou reapest that which thou didst not sow.

And to some who trusted in themselves as just, and despised others, he spoke also this parable:

I think not. So you also, when you shall have done all these things that are commanded you, say: We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which we ought to do.

I say to you, that even so there shall be joy in heaven upon one sinner that doth penance, more than upon ninety-nine just who need not penance.

Saying: These last have worked but one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, that have borne the burden of the day and the heats.

And you have said: What have we spoken against thee? You have said: He laboureth in vain that serveth God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked sorrowful before the Lord of hosts?

To speak to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts, and to the prophets, saying: Must I weep in the fifth month, or must I sanctify myself as I have now done for many years?

That say: Depart from me. Come not near me, because thou art unclean. These shall be smoke in my anger, a fire burning all the day.

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

Because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before him. For by the law is the knowledge of sin.

And he was angry, and would not go in. His father therefore coming out began to entreat him.

But as soon as this thy son is come, who hath devoured his substance with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.




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