Luke 15:29

Good News Translation

But he spoke back to his father, ‘Look, all these years I have worked for you like a slave, and I have never disobeyed your orders. What have you given me? Not even a goat for me to have a feast with my friends!

Cross References

Isaiah 65:5

And then they say to others, ‘Keep away from us; we are too holy for you to touch!’ I cannot stand people like that—my anger against them is like a fire that never goes out.

Zechariah 7:3

and to ask the priests and the prophets this question: “Should we continue to mourn because of the destruction of the Temple, by fasting in the fifth month as we have done for so many years now?”

Malachi 3:14

You have said, ‘It's useless to serve God. What's the use of doing what he says or of trying to show the Lord Almighty that we are sorry for what we have done?

Matthew 20:12

‘These men who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘while we put up with a whole day's work in the hot sun—yet you paid them the same as you paid us!’

Luke 15:28

The older brother was so angry that he would not go into the house; so his father came out and begged him to come in.

Luke 15:30

But this son of yours wasted all your property on prostitutes, and when he comes back home, you kill the prize calf for him!’

Luke 15:7

In the same way, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine respectable people who do not need to repent.

Luke 17:10

It is the same with you; when you have done all you have been told to do, say, ‘We are ordinary servants; we have only done our duty.’”

Luke 18:9

Jesus also told this parable to people who were sure of their own goodness and despised everybody else.

Luke 19:21

I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take what is not yours and reap what you did not plant.’

Romans 10:3

They have not known the way in which God puts people right with himself, and instead, they have tried to set up their own way; and so they did not submit themselves to God's way of putting people right.

Romans 3:20

For no one is put right in God's sight by doing what the Law requires; what the Law does is to make us know that we have sinned.

Romans 3:27

What, then, can we boast about? Nothing! And what is the reason for this? Is it that we obey the Law? No, but that we believe.

Romans 7:9

I myself was once alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life,

Revelation 2:17

“If you have ears, then, listen to what the Spirit says to the churches! “To those who win the victory I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give each of them a white stone on which is written a new name that no one knows except the one who receives it.

Revelation 3:17

You say, ‘I am rich and well off; I have all I need.’ But you do not know how miserable and pitiful you are! You are poor, naked, and blind.