Luke 15:18

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:

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  • Ps 116:3-7 : 3 The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. 4 Then called I upon the name of Jehovah: O Jehovah, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. 5 Gracious is Jehovah, and righteous; Yea, our God is merciful. 6 Jehovah preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he saved me. 7 Return unto thy rest, O my soul; For Jehovah hath dealt bountifully with thee.
  • Lam 3:40 : 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
  • Matt 3:6 : 6 and they were baptized of him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.
  • Matt 6:9 : 9 After this manner therefore pray ye. Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
  • Matt 6:14 : 14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
  • Luke 15:21 : 21 And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight: I am no more worthy to be called thy son .
  • Luke 18:13 : 13 But the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote his breast, saying, God, be thou merciful to me a sinner.
  • 1 John 1:8-9 : 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
  • Matt 7:11 : 11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
  • Luke 11:2 : 2 And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Father, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come.
  • Dan 4:26 : 26 And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule.
  • Hos 2:6-7 : 6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths. 7 And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.
  • Hos 14:1-3 : 1 O Israel, return unto Jehovah thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. 2 Take with you words, and return unto Jehovah: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and accept that which is good: so will we render [as] bullocks [the offering of] our lips. 3 Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, [Ye are] our gods; for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
  • Jonah 2:4 : 4 And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
  • Jonah 3:9 : 9 Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
  • Prov 23:13 : 13 Withhold not correction from the child; [For] if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.
  • Isa 63:16 : 16 For thou art our Father, though Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us: thou, O Jehovah, art our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is thy name.
  • Jer 3:19 : 19 But I said, How I will put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations! and I said, Ye shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away from following me.
  • Jer 31:6-9 : 6 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the hills of Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto Jehovah our God. 7 For thus saith Jehovah, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O Jehovah, save thy people, the remnant of Israel. 8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, [and] with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall they return hither. 9 They shall come with weeping; and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way wherein they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born.
  • Jer 31:20 : 20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearneth for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith Jehovah.
  • Jer 50:4-5 : 4 In those days, and in that time, saith Jehovah, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek Jehovah their God. 5 They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces thitherward, [saying], Come ye, and join yourselves to Jehovah in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.
  • Lam 3:18-22 : 18 And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah. 19 Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. 20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me. 21 This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope. 22 [ It is of] Jehovah's lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
  • Lam 3:29 : 29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
  • Lev 26:40-41 : 40 And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary unto me, 41 I also walked contrary unto them, and brought them into the land of their enemies: if then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity;
  • 1 Kgs 8:47-48 : 47 yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captive, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have dealt wickedly; 48 if they return unto thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:
  • 1 Kgs 20:30-31 : 30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand men that were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber. 31 And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, we pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.
  • 2 Kgs 7:3-4 : 3 Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die? 4 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
  • 2 Chr 33:12-13 : 12 And when he was in distress, he besought Jehovah his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 13 And he prayed unto him; and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Jehovah he was God.
  • 2 Chr 33:19 : 19 His prayer also, and how [God] was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the graven images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.
  • Job 33:27-28 : 27 He singeth before men, and saith, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, And it profited me not: 28 He hath redeemed my soul from going into the pit, And my life shall behold the light.
  • Job 36:8-9 : 8 And if they be bound in fetters, And be taken in the cords of afflictions; 9 Then he showeth them their work, And their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly. 10 He openeth also their ear to instruction, And commandeth that they return from iniquity.
  • Ps 25:11 : 11 For thy name's sake, O Jehovah, Pardon mine iniquity, for it is great.
  • Ps 32:3-5 : 3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long. 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed [as] with the drought of summer. {{Selah 5 I acknowledged my sin unto thee, And mine iniquity did I not hide: I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Jehovah; And thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. {{Selah
  • Ps 51:3-5 : 3 For I know my transgressions; And my sin is ever before me. 4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, And done that which is evil in thy sight; That thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, And be clear when thou judgest. 5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.

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    19I am no more worthy to be called your son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

    20And he arose, and came to his father. But while he was yet afar off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

    21And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight: I am no more worthy to be called thy son .

    22But the father said to his servants, Bring forth quickly the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:

    23and bring the fatted calf, [and] kill it, and let us eat, and make merry:

    24for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

    25Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing.

    26And he called to him one of the servants, and inquired what these things might be.

    27And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.

    28But he was angry, and would not go in: and his father came out, and entreated him.

    29But 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:

    30but when this thy son came, who hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou killedst for him the fatted calf.

    31And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that is mine is thine.

    32But it was meet to make merry and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive [again] ; and [was] lost, and is found.

  • Luke 15:10-17
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    10Even so, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.

    11And he said, A certain man had two sons:

    12and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of [thy] substance that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.

    13And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country; and there he wasted his substance with riotous living.

    14And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that country; and he began to be in want.

    15And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

    16And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

    17But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger!

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    3And he spake unto them this parable, saying,

    4What man of you, having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?

    5And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

    6And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and his neighbors, saying unto them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.

    7I say unto you, that even so there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, [more] than over ninety and nine righteous persons, who need no repentance.

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    28But what think ye? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to-day in the vineyard.

    29And he answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented himself, and went.

    30And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I [go], sir: and went not.

  • Luke 18:13-14
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    13But the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote his breast, saying, God, be thou merciful to me a sinner.

    14I say unto you, This man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled; but he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

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    18And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son?

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    18For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

  • Luke 16:27
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    27And he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house;

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    11(Ommitted)

    12How think ye? if any man have a hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and go unto the mountains, and seek that which goeth astray?

    13And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth over it more than over the ninety and nine which have not gone astray.

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    15And if thy brother sin against thee, go, show him his fault between thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.

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    32Then his lord called him unto him, and saith to him, Thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou besoughtest me:

  • Luke 16:3-4
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    3And the steward said within himself, What shall I do, seeing that my lord taketh away the stewardship from me? I have not strength to dig; to beg I am ashamed.

    4I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.

  • Matt 18:26
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    26The servant therefore fell down and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.

  • Gen 44:34
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    34For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.

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    10Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.

  • Matt 18:23
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    23Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, who would make a reckoning with his servants.

  • Matt 18:35
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    35So shall also my heavenly Father do unto you, if ye forgive not every one his brother from your hearts.

  • Luke 19:10
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    10For the Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost.

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    20We acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.

  • 1 Sam 15:30
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    30Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship Jehovah thy God.