Luke 15:29

Legacy Standard Bible

But he answered and said to his father, ‘Look! For so many years I have been serving you and never have I neglected a command of yours. And yet never have you given me a young goat, so that I might celebrate with my friends.

Cross References

Isaiah 65:5

Who say, ‘Keep to yourself, do not come near me, For I am holier than you!’ These are smoke in My nostrils, A fire that burns all the day.

Zechariah 7:3

speaking to the priests, who belong to the house of Yahweh of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, “Shall I weep in the fifth month and abstain, as I have done these many years?”

Malachi 3:14

You have said, ‘It is worthless to serve God; and what gain is it that we have kept His charge and that we have walked in mourning before Yahweh of hosts?

Matthew 20:12

saying, ‘These last men have worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’

Luke 15:28

But he became angry and was not wanting to go in, and his father came out and began pleading with him.

Luke 15:30

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

Luke 15:7

I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

Luke 17:10

In this way, you also, when you do all the things which are commanded of you, say, ‘We are unworthy slaves; we have done only that which we ought to have done.’ ”

Luke 18:9

And He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and viewed others with contempt:

Luke 19:21

for I was afraid of you, because you are a strict man; you take up what you did not lay down and reap what you did not sow.’

Romans 10:3

For not knowing about the righteousness of God and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

Romans 3:20

because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.

Romans 3:27

Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

Romans 7:9

Now I was once alive apart from the Law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died;

Revelation 2:17

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a new name written on the stone which no one knows but he who receives it.’

Revelation 3:17

Because you say, “I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are wretched and pitiable and poor and blind and naked.