Luke 15:29

Easy To Read Version

The son said to his father, ‘I have served you like a slave for many years! I have always obeyed your commands. But you never killed even a goat for me! You never gave a party for me and my friends.

Cross References

Isaiah 65:5

“But those people tell other people, ‘Don’t come near me! Don’t touch me until I make you clean.’ Those people are like smoke in my eyes. And their fire burns all the time.”

Zechariah 7:3

They went to the prophets and to the priests at the temple of the Lord All-Powerful. Those men asked them this question: “For many years we have shown our sadness for the destruction of the temple. In the fifth month of each year we have had a special time of crying and fasting. Should we continue to do this?”

Malachi 3:14

You said, “It is useless to worship the Lord. We did the things the Lord told us— but we didn’t gain anything. We were sad \{for our sins\} like people crying at a funeral. But it didn’t help.

Matthew 20:12

The workers said, ‘Those people were hired last and worked only one hour. But you paid them the same as us. And we worked hard all day in the hot sun.’

Luke 15:28

The older son was angry and would not go in to the party. So his father went out to ask him to come in.

Luke 15:30

But your other son has wasted all your money on prostitutes. {\cf2\super [260]} Then he comes home, and you kill the fat calf for him!’

Luke 15:7

In the same way, I tell you, heaven is a happy place when one sinner changes his heart. There is more joy for that one sinner than there is for 99 good people that don’t need to change their hearts.

Luke 17:10

It is the same with you. When you do all the things you are told to do, you should say, ‘We are not worthy of any special thanks. We have only done the work we should do.’”

Luke 18:9

There were some people that thought that they were very good. These people acted like they were better than other people. Jesus used this story to teach them:

Luke 19:21

I was afraid of you because you are a hard man. You even take money that you didn’t earn and gather food that you didn’t grow!’

Romans 10:3

They did not know the way that God makes people right with him. And they tried to make themselves right in their own way. So they did not accept God’s way of making people right.

Romans 3:20

Why? Because no person can be made right with God by following the law. The law only shows us our sin.

Romans 3:27

So do we have a reason to boast about ourselves? No! And why not? It is the way of faith that stops all boasting, not the way of following the law.

Romans 7:9

I was alive without the law before I knew the law. But when the law’s command came to me, then sin began to live.

Revelation 2:17

“Every person that hears these things should listen to what the Spirit {\cf2\super [20]} says to the churches!

Revelation 3:17

You say you are rich. You think you have become wealthy and don’t need a thing. But you don’t know that you are really terrible, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.