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Luke 15:31

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then the father said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.

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

But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life; he was lost and has been found.’ ”

The slave does not have a permanent place in the household; the son has a place there forever.

I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.

“Or who has given a gift to him, to receive a gift in return?”

They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises;