His prayer and how God was moved by his entreaty, as well as all his sins and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself – all these are written in the records of the seers.
Luke 15:18 - New International Version (Anglicised) I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. American Standard Version (1901) I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight: Common English Bible I will get up and go to my father, and say to him,“Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. Catholic Public Domain Version I shall rise up and go to my father, and I will say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I will arise, and will go to my father, and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee: |
His prayer and how God was moved by his entreaty, as well as all his sins and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself – all these are written in the records of the seers.
For the sake of your name, Lord, forgive my iniquity, though it is great.
Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish them with the rod, they will not die.
But you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us or Israel acknowledge us; you, Lord, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name.
‘I myself said, ‘ “How gladly would I treat you like my children and give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful inheritance of any nation.” I thought you would call me “Father” and not turn away from following me.
Is not Ephraim my dear son, the child in whom I delight? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore my heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,’ declares the Lord.
Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord.
The command to leave the stump of the tree with its roots means that your kingdom will be restored to you when you acknowledge that Heaven rules.
I said, “I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again towards your holy temple.”
Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.’
Confessing their sins, they were baptised by him in the River Jordan.
For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
‘This, then, is how you should pray: ‘ “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!
He said to them, ‘When you pray, say: ‘ “Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come.
‘When he came to his senses, he said, “How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death!
I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.”
‘The son said to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.”
‘But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, “God, have mercy on me, a sinner.”