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Luke 15:29

James Moffatt - New Testament

but he replied, 'Look at all the years I have been serving you! I have never neglected any of your orders, and yet you have never given me so much as a kid, to let me make merry with my friends.

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You declare, 'I am rich, I am well off, I lack nothing!' — not knowing you are a miserable creature, pitiful, poor, blind, naked.

Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches: 'The conqueror I will allow to share the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, unknown to any except him who receives it.'

They would not surrender to the righteousness of God, because they were ignorant of his righteousness and therefore essayed to set up a righteousness of their own.

I lived at one time without law myself, but when the command came home to me, sin sprang to life and I died;

for I was afraid of you, you are such a hard man — picking up what you never put down, and reaping what you never sowed.'

He also told the following parable to certain persons who were sure of their own goodness and looked down upon everybody else.

Well, it is the same with you; when you have done all you are bidden, say, 'We are but servants; we have only done our duty.' "

So, I tell you, there will be joy in heaven over a single sinner who repents, more than over ninety-nine good people who do not need to repent.

'These last,' they said, 'have only worked a single hour, and yet you have ranked them equal to us who have borne the brunt of the day's work and the heat!'

Then what becomes of our boasting? It is ruled out absolutely. On what principle? On the principle of doing deeds? No, on the principle of faith.

for no person will be acquitted in his sight on the score of obedience to law. What the Law imparts is the consciousness of sin.

This angered him, and he would not go in. His father came out and tried to appease him,

But as soon as this son of yours arrives, after having wasted your means with harlots, you kill the fatted calf for him!'




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