Luke 15:29

The English Standar Version

but he answered his father, 'Look, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command, yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

Cross References

Revelation 3:17

For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing 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 the one 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 that no one knows except the one 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 came alive and I died.

Luke 19:21

for I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You take what you did not deposit, 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 treated others with contempt:

Luke 17:10

So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, 'We are unworthy servants;[5] 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 profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the LORD of hosts?

Zechariah 7:3

saying to the priests of the house of the LORD of hosts and the prophets, "Should I weep and abstain 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 too holy for 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. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.

Romans 3:20

For by works of the law no human being[3] will be justified in his sight, 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 property with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!'