Luke 15:31

First Nations Version

“‘My son,’ he said to him, ‘you are always close to my heart, and everything I have is yours.

Cross References

Romans 9:4

They are members of the tribes of Wrestles with Creator (Israel) and my flesh-and-blood relatives. They were chosen by the Great Spirit and taken into his family. They were given honor, sacred treaties and promises, laws to live by, and a sacred lodge in which to perform ceremonies.

Romans 11:1

If you think that I am saying the Great Spirit has turned away from his own people in the tribes of Wrestles with Creator (Israel), you are mistaken. I am proof that he did not. I myself am a Tribal Member, a descendant of Father of Many Nations (Abraham), from the tribe of Son of My Right Hand (Benjamin).

Romans 11:35

“Who could give him a gift that would require a gift in return?”

Luke 15:30

But when this son of yours, who wasted all you gave him on sexual favors with women, comes home, you kill the fattest calf for him.’ “The father looked kindly into his older son’s face.

Luke 15:32

But it is a good thing for us to celebrate with glad hearts, for your brother was dead but now is alive. He was lost, but now we have found him!’”

John 8:35

A slave is not a member of the family and will not always live with the family. But a son of the family always has a home.