They say, “Keep to yourself, don’t come near me, for I am too holy for you! ” These practices are smoke in my nostrils, a fire that burns all day long.
Luke 15:29 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised But he replied to his father, “Look, I have been slaving many years for you, and I have never disobeyed your orders, yet you never gave me a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But he answered his father, Look! These many years I have served you, and I have never disobeyed your command. Yet you never gave me [so much as] a [little] kid, that I might revel and feast and be happy and make merry with my friends; American Standard Version (1901) But he answered and said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, and I never transgressed a commandment of thine; and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: Common English Bible He answered his father, ‘Look, I’ve served you all these years, and I never disobeyed your instruction. Yet you’ve never given me as much as a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. Catholic Public Domain Version And in response, he said to his father: 'Behold, I have been serving you for so many years. And I have never transgressed your commandment. And yet, you have never given me even a young goat, so that I might feast with my friends. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And he answering, said to his father: Behold, for so many years do I serve thee, and I have never transgressed thy commandment, and yet thou hast never given me a kid to make merry with my friends: |
They say, “Keep to yourself, don’t come near me, for I am too holy for you! ” These practices are smoke in my nostrils, a fire that burns all day long.
by asking the priests who were at the house of the Lord of Armies as well as the prophets, ‘Should we mourn and fast in the fifth month as we have done these many years? ’
You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God. What have we gained by keeping his requirements and walking mournfully before the Lord of Armies?
“These last men put in one hour, and you made them equal to us who bore the burden of the day’s work and the burning heat.”
‘Then he became angry and didn’t want to go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him.
But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you slaughtered the fattened calf for him.”
I tell you, in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who don’t need repentance.
In the same way, when you have done all that you were commanded, you should say, “We are unworthy servants; we’ve only done our duty.” ’
He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else:
because I was afraid of you since you’re a harsh man: you collect what you didn’t deposit and reap what you didn’t sow.”
Since they are ignorant of the righteousness of God and attempted to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted to God’s righteousness.
For no one will be justified in his sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.
Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? , By one of works? No, on the contrary, by a law of faith.
Once I was alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life again
‘Let anyone who has ears to hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give some of the hidden manna. , I will also give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name is inscribed that no one knows except the one who receives it.
For you say, “I’m rich; I have become wealthy and need nothing,” and you don’t realise that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.