Luke 15:18

New English Translation

I will get up and go to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 33:19

The Annals of the Prophets include his prayer, give an account of how the Lord responded to it, record all his sins and unfaithful acts, and identify the sites where he built high places and erected Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself.

Psalm 25:11

For the sake of your reputation, O Lord, forgive my sin, because it is great.

Proverbs 23:13

Do not withhold discipline from a child; even if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

Isaiah 63:16

For you are our father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not recognize us. You, Lord, are our father; you have been called our protector from ancient times.

Jeremiah 3:19

“I thought to myself, ‘Oh what a joy it would be for me to treat you like a son! What a joy it would be for me to give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful piece of property there is in all the world!’ I thought you would call me, ‘Father’ and would never cease being loyal to me.

Jeremiah 31:20

Indeed, the people of Israel are my dear children. They are the children I take delight in. For even though I must often rebuke them, I still remember them with fondness. So I am deeply moved with pity for them and will surely have compassion on them. I, the Lord, affirm it!

Lamentations 3:29

Let him bury his face in the dust; perhaps there is hope.

Lamentations 3:40

Let us carefully examine our ways, and let us return to the Lord.

Daniel 4:26

They said to leave the taproot of the tree, for your kingdom will be restored to you when you come to understand that heaven rules.

Jonah 2:4

I thought I had been banished from your sight, that I would never again see your holy temple!

Jonah 3:9

Who knows? Perhaps God might be willing to change his mind and relent and turn from his fierce anger so that we might not die.”

Matthew 3:6

and he was baptizing them in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.

Matthew 6:14

“For if you forgive others their sins, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

Matthew 6:9

So pray this way: Our Father in heaven, may your name be honored,

Matthew 7:11

If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!

Luke 11:2

So he said to them, “When you pray, say: Father, may your name be honored; may your kingdom come.

Luke 15:17

But when he came to his senses he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have food enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!

Luke 15:19

I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired workers.”’

Luke 15:21

Then his son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

Luke 18:13

The tax collector, however, stood far off and would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, be merciful to me, sinner that I am!’