Luke 15:17

New American Bible - revised edition

Coming to his senses he thought, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have more than enough food to eat, but here am I, dying from hunger.

Cross References

Ezekiel 18:28

since they turned away from all the sins they committed, they shall live; they shall not die.

Ephesians 5:14

for everything that becomes visible is light. Therefore, it says: “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.”

Jeremiah 31:19

For after I turned away, I repented; after I came to myself, I struck my thigh; I was ashamed, even humiliated, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.

Acts 2:37

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and they asked Peter and the other apostles, “What are we to do, my brothers?”

Luke 16:23

and from the netherworld, where he was in torment, he raised his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.

Luke 8:35

People came out to see what had happened and, when they approached Jesus, they discovered the man from whom the demons had come out sitting at his feet. He was clothed and in his right mind, and they were seized with fear.

Lamentations 1:7

Jerusalem remembers in days of wretched homelessness, All the precious things she once had in days gone by. But when her people fell into the hands of the foe, and she had no help, Her foes looked on and laughed at her collapse.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

Among all the things that are done under the sun, this is the worst, that there is one lot for all. Hence the hearts of human beings are filled with evil, and madness is in their hearts during life; and afterward—to the dead!

Psalm 73:20

They are like a dream after waking, Lord, dismissed like shadows when you arise.

Psalm 119:59

I have examined my ways and turned my steps to your testimonies.

Hosea 2:7

Yes, their mother has prostituted herself; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, “I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.”

Luke 15:16

And he longed to eat his fill of the pods on which the swine fed, but nobody gave him any.

Acts 12:11

Then Peter recovered his senses and said, “Now I know for certain that [the] Lord sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people had been expecting.”