Luke 15:29

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

But he said to his father, ‘Look, for all these years I have worked like a slave for you. I have always done what you told me to do, and you never gave me even a young goat for a party with my friends.

Cross References

Revelation 3:17

You say you are rich. You think you have become wealthy and don’t need anything. But you don’t know that you are really miserable, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

Revelation 2:17

“Everyone who hears this should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches! “I will give the hidden manna to everyone who wins the victory. I will also give each one a white stone that has a new name written on it. And no one will know this name except the one who gets the stone.

Romans 10:3

They did not know the way that God makes people right with him. And they tried to make themselves right in their own way. So they did not accept God’s way of making people right.

Romans 7:9

Before I knew the law, I was alive. But when I heard the law’s command, sin began to live,

Luke 19:21

I was afraid of you because you are a hard man. You even take money that you didn’t earn and gather food that you didn’t grow.’

Luke 18:9

There were some people who thought they were very good and looked down on everyone else. Jesus used this story to teach them:

Luke 17:10

It is the same with you. When you finish doing all that you are told to do, you should say, ‘We are not worthy of any special thanks. We have only done the work we should do.’”

Luke 15:7

In the same way, I tell you, heaven is a happy place when one sinner decides to change. There is more joy for that one sinner than for 99 good people who don’t need to change.

Matthew 20:12

They said, ‘Those people were hired last and worked only one hour. But you paid them the same as us. And we worked hard all day in the hot sun.’

Malachi 3:14

You said, “It is useless to worship God. We did what the Lord All-Powerful told us, but we didn’t gain anything. We cried like people at a funeral to show we were sorry for our sins, but it didn’t help.

Zechariah 7:3

They went to the prophets and to the priests at the Temple of the Lord All-Powerful. They asked them this question: “For many years we have shown our sadness for the destruction of the Temple. In the fifth month of each year, we have had a special time of crying and fasting. Should we continue to do this?”

Isaiah 65:5

But they tell others, ‘Don’t come near me! Don’t touch me because I am holy!’ They are like smoke in my eyes, and their fire burns all the time.”

Romans 3:27

So do we have any reason to boast about ourselves? No reason at all. And why not? Because we are depending on the way of faith, not on what we have done in following the law.

Romans 3:20

because no one can be made right with God by following the law. The law only shows us our sin.

Luke 15:28

“The older son was angry and would not go in to the party. So his father went out and begged him to come in.

Luke 15:30

But then this son of yours comes home after wasting your money on prostitutes, and you kill the best calf for him!’