Luke 15:29

Free Bible Version

He told his father, ‘Look, all these years I've served you, and never disobeyed you, but you never once gave me even a young goat so I could have a party with my friends.

Cross References

Isaiah 65:5

They tell others, “Keep your distance! Don't come close to me as I'm too holy to be touched by you!” These people are like smoke in my nostrils, a stink burning all day long!

Zechariah 7:3

They were to ask the priests of the Temple of the Lord Almighty and the prophets, “Should I go on mourning and fasting in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”

Malachi 3:14

You have said, “What's the point of serving God? What benefit is there in keeping his commandments or going before the Lord Almighty with long faces?

Matthew 20:12

‘Those who were hired last only worked for an hour, and you've paid them the same as us who worked the whole day in the burning heat,’ they grumbled.

Luke 15:28

The brother became angry. He refused to go in. So his father came out to plead with him.

Luke 15:30

Now this son of yours comes back, having spent your money on prostitutes, and you kill the fattened calf for him!’

Luke 15:7

I tell you that there's more joy in heaven over a sinner that repents than over ninety-nine good people who don't need to repent.

Luke 17:10

Likewise once you've done everything you were told, you should simply say, ‘We are undeserving servants. We just did our duty.’”

Luke 18:9

He also told this story about those who are so sure that they are living right, and who put everybody else down.

Luke 19:21

I was afraid of you because you're a hard man. You take what doesn't belong to you, and you harvest what you didn't plant.’

Romans 10:3

They don't understand how God makes us right with him, and they try to make themselves right. They refuse to accept God's way of making people right.

Romans 3:20

For no one is made right before God by doing what the law requires. The law only helps us recognize what sin really is.

Romans 3:27

So do we have anything to boast about then? Absolutely not, there's no place for that! And why's that? Is it because we follow the law of observing requirements? No, we follow the law of trusting in God.

Romans 7:9

I used to live without realizing what the law really meant, but when I understood the implications of that commandment, then sin came back to life, and I died.

Revelation 2:17

If you have ears, listen to what the Spirit is telling the churches. I will give the hidden manna to those who are victorious. I will give them a white stone with a new name written on it that nobody knows except those who receive it.

Revelation 3:17

You say to yourselves, ‘I'm rich, I have wealth, and don't need anything.’ But you don't know that you are miserable and pitiful and poor and blind and naked.