Luke 15:29

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

but he answered his father, ‘Lo, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command; yet you never gave me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends.

Cross References

Revelation 3:17

For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing; not knowing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.

Revelation 2:17

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone which no one knows except him who receives it.’

Romans 10:3

For, being ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.

Romans 7:9

I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died;

Luke 19:21

for I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man; you take up what you did not lay down, and reap what you did not sow.’

Luke 18:9

He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others:

Luke 17:10

So you also, when you have done all that is commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.’ ”

Luke 15:7

Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

Matthew 20:12

saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’

Malachi 3:14

You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God. What is the good of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the Lord of hosts?

Zechariah 7:3

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

Isaiah 65:5

who say, “Keep to yourself, do not come near me, for I am set apart from you.” These are a smoke in my nostrils, a fire that burns all the day.

Romans 3:27

Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On the principle of works? No, but on the principle of faith.

Romans 3:20

For no human being will be justified in his sight by works of the law, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

Luke 15:28

But he was angry and refused to go in. His father came out and entreated him,

Luke 15:30

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