Luke 15:29

New English Translation

but he answered his father, ‘Look! These many years I have worked like a slave for you, and I never disobeyed your commands. Yet you never gave me even a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends!

Cross References

Isaiah 65:5

They say, ‘Keep to yourself! Don’t get near me, for I am holier than you!’ These people are like smoke in my nostrils, like a fire that keeps burning all day long.

Zechariah 7:3

by asking both the priests of the temple of the Lord who rules over all and the prophets, “Should we weep in the fifth month, fasting as we have done over the years?”

Malachi 3:14

You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord who rules over all?

Matthew 20:12

saying, ‘These last fellows worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us who bore the hardship and burning heat of the day.’

Luke 15:28

But the older son became angry and refused to go in. His father came out and appealed to him,

Luke 15:30

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

Luke 15:7

I tell you, in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need to repent.

Luke 17:10

So you too, when you have done everything you were commanded to do, should say, ‘We are slaves undeserving of special praise; we have only done what was our duty.’”

Luke 18:9

Jesus also told this parable to some who were confident that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else.

Luke 19:21

For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’

Romans 10:3

For ignoring the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking instead to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

Romans 3:20

For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Romans 3:27

Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded! By what principle? Of works? No, but by the principle of faith!

Romans 7:9

And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive

Revelation 2:17

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give him some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on that stone will be written a new name that no one can understand except the one who receives it.’

Revelation 3:17

Because you say, “I am rich and have acquired great wealth, and need nothing,” but do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked,