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Luke 15:31

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And he 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, who has devoured your living with harlots, you killed for him the fatted calf!’

It was fitting to make merry and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.’ ”

The slave does not continue in the house for ever; the son continues for ever.

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 that he might be repaid?”

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