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Luke 15:31

The Text-Critical English New Testament

The father said to him, ‘Son, yoʋ are always with me, and everything I have is yoʋrs.

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But when this son of yoʋrs came, who has devoured yoʋr assets with prostitutes, yoʋ killed the fattened calf for him.’

But it was proper to celebrate and rejoice, for yoʋr brother was dead but is now alive again; he was lost but has now been found.’ ”

The slave does not abide in the house forever; the son abides forever.

I ask then, has God rejected his people? Certainly not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

“Or who has first given to God, that he should be repaid?”

They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption as sons, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple service, and the promises.