Luke 15:29

Holman Christian Standard Bible

But he replied to his father, ‘Look, I have been slaving many years for you, and I have never disobeyed your orders, yet you never gave me a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

Cross References

Isaiah 65:5

They say, ‘Keep to yourself, don’t come near me, for I am too holy for you! ’ These practices are smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all day long.

Zechariah 7:3

by asking the priests who were at the house of the Lord of Hosts as well as the prophets, “Should we mourn and fast in the fifth month as we have done these many years? ”

Malachi 3:14

You have said: “It is useless to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the Lord of Hosts?

Matthew 20:12

‘These last men put in one hour, and you made them equal to us who bore the burden of the day and the burning heat! ’

Luke 15:28

“Then he became angry and didn’t want to go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him.

Luke 15:30

But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you slaughtered the fattened calf for him.’

Luke 15:7

I tell you, in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over 99 righteous people who don’t need repentance.

Luke 17:10

In the same way, when you have done all that you were commanded, you should say, ‘We are good-for-nothing slaves; we’ve only done our duty.’ ”

Luke 18:9

He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else:

Luke 19:21

because I was afraid of you, for you’re a tough man: you collect what you didn’t deposit and reap what you didn’t sow.’

Romans 10:3

Because they disregarded the righteousness from God and attempted to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted themselves to God’s righteousness.

Romans 3:20

For no one will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.

Romans 3:27

Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By one of works? No, on the contrary, by a law of faith.

Romans 7:9

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

Revelation 2:17

“Anyone who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will give the victor some of the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name is inscribed that no one knows except the one who receives it.

Revelation 3:17

Because you say, ‘I’m rich; I have become wealthy and need nothing,’ and you don’t know that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked,