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Luke 15:31

Tree of Life Version

“Then the father said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and everything that is mine is yours.

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

But it was right to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead but has come back to life! He was lost, but is found.’”

Now the slave does not remain in the household forever; the son abides forever.

I say then, God has not rejected His people, has He? May it never be! For I too am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Or “who has first given to Him, that it shall be repaid to him?”

who are Israelites. To them belong the adoption and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the Torah and the Temple service and the promises.