Luke 15:29

Tree of Life Version

But he answered and said to his father, ‘Look, so many years I’ve slaved away for you—not once did I ignore your order. Yet you’ve never given me a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

Cross References

Isaiah 65:5

who say, ‘Keep to yourself, don’t come to me, for I am holier than you!’ These are smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all day.

Zechariah 7:3

and to speak to the kohanim of the House of Adonai-Tzva’ot and to the prophets saying, “Should I mourn and consecrate myself in the fifth month as I have done for so many years?”

Malachi 3:14

You say: “Serving God is worthless.” Also: “What good is it that we kept His service or that we walked as mourners before Adonai-Tzva’ot?

Matthew 20:12

saying, ‘These last guys did one hour, and you’ve made them equal to us, who bore the burden and scorching heat of the day!’

Luke 15:28

“But the older son was angry and didn’t want to go in. So his father came outside and pleaded with him.

Luke 15:30

But when this son of yours came—the one who has squandered your wealth with prostitutes—for him you killed the fattened calf!”

Luke 15:7

I tell you, in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one repenting sinner than over the ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance.”

Luke 17:10

So you too, when you’ve done everything you are commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy slaves. We have done only what we were supposed to do.’”

Luke 18:9

Then Yeshua spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, while holding others in contempt.

Luke 19:21

for I was afraid of you because you are a strict man. You take what you did not make and reap what you did not sow.’

Romans 10:3

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit themselves to the righteousness of God.

Romans 3:20

For no human, on the basis of Torah observance, will be set right in His sight—for through the Torah comes awareness of sin.

Romans 3:27

Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. By what principle? Of works? No, but by the principle of faith.

Romans 7:9

Once I was alive apart from the Torah; but when the commandment came, sin came to life

Revelation 2:17

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Ruach is saying to Messiah’s communities. To the one who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna , and I will give him a white stone—and written on the stone a new name that no one knows except the one who receives it.”

Revelation 3:17

For you say, ‘I am rich, I have made myself wealthy, and I need nothing.’ But you do not know that you are miserable and pitiable and poor and blind and naked.