Luke 15:29

New International Version

But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

Cross References

Isaiah 65:5

who say, ‘Keep away; don’t come near me, for I am too sacred for you!’ Such people are smoke in my nostrils, a fire that keeps burning all day.

Zechariah 7:3

by asking the priests of the house of the Lord Almighty and the prophets, “Should I mourn and fast in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”

Malachi 3:14

“You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What do we gain by carrying out his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord Almighty?

Matthew 20:12

‘These who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’

Luke 15:28

“The older brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father went out and pleaded with him.

Luke 15:30

But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!’

Luke 15:7

I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.

Luke 17:10

So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’ ”

Luke 18:9

To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable:

Luke 19:21

I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take out what you did not put in and reap what you did not sow.’

Romans 10:3

Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

Romans 3:20

Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.

Romans 3:27

Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith.

Romans 7:9

Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

Revelation 2:17

Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it.

Revelation 3:17

You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.