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.

Cross References

Revelation 3:17

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

Revelation 2:17

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.'

Romans 10:3

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.

Romans 7:9

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

Luke 19:21

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.'

Luke 18:9

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

Luke 17:10

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.' "

Luke 15:7

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.

Matthew 20:12

'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!'

Romans 3:27

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.

Romans 3:20

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.

Luke 15:28

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

Luke 15:30

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