Cross References

Luke 15:31

New American Bible - revised edition

He said to him, ‘My son, you are here with me always; everything I have is yours.

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But when your son returns who swallowed up your property with prostitutes, for him you slaughter the fattened calf.’

But now we must celebrate and rejoice, because your brother was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.’”

A slave does not remain in a household forever, but a son always remains.

I ask, then, has God rejected his people? Of course not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

“Or who has given him anything that he may be repaid?”

They are Israelites; theirs the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises;