Luke 15:18

Good News Translation (US Version)

I will get up and go to my father and say, “Father, I have sinned against God and against you.

Cross References

Lamentations 3:40

Let us examine our ways and turn back to the Lord.

Luke 15:21

‘Father,’ the son said, ‘I have sinned against God and against you. I am no longer fit to be called your son.’

Luke 18:13

But the tax collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his face to heaven, but beat on his breast and said, ‘God, have pity on me, a sinner!’

Matthew 6:14

“If you forgive others the wrongs they have done to you, your Father in heaven will also forgive you.

Jeremiah 3:19

The Lord says, “Israel, I wanted to accept you as my child and give you a delightful land, the most beautiful land in all the world. I wanted you to call me father and never again turn away from me.

Psalm 25:11

Keep your promise, Lord, and forgive my sins, for they are many.

Matthew 6:9

This, then, is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven: May your holy name be honored;

Matthew 3:6

They confessed their sins, and he baptized them in the Jordan.

Jeremiah 31:20

“Israel, you are my dearest child, the one I love best. Whenever I mention your name, I think of you with love. My heart goes out to you; I will be merciful.

Isaiah 63:16

You are our father. Our ancestors Abraham and Jacob do not acknowledge us, but you, Lord, are our father, the one who has always rescued us.

Proverbs 23:13

Don't hesitate to discipline children. A good spanking won't kill them.

Matthew 7:11

As bad as you are, you know how to give good things to your children. How much more, then, will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

2 Chronicles 33:19

The king's prayer and God's answer to it, and an account of the sins he committed before he repented—the evil he did, the pagan places of worship and the symbols of the goddess Asherah that he made and the idols that he worshiped—are all recorded in The History of the Prophets.

Luke 11:2

Jesus said to them, “When you pray, say this: ‘Father: May your holy name be honored; may your Kingdom come.

Jonah 3:9

Perhaps God will change his mind; perhaps he will stop being angry, and we will not die!”

Jonah 2:4

I thought I had been banished from your presence and would never see your holy Temple again.

Daniel 4:26

The angel ordered the stump to be left in the ground. This means that you will become king again when you acknowledge that God rules all the world.

Lamentations 3:29

We should bow in submission, for there may still be hope.

Luke 15:17

At last he came to his senses and said, ‘All my father's hired workers have more than they can eat, and here I am about to starve!

Luke 15:19

I am no longer fit to be called your son; treat me as one of your hired workers.”’