Luke 15:29

Coverdale Bible (1535)

But he answered, and sayde vnto his father: Lo, thus many yeares haue I done the seruyce, nether haue I yet broken thy commaundement, and thou gauest me neuer one kydd, yt I might make mery with my frendes.

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  • Luke 18:11-12 : 11 The Pharise stode, and prayed by himself after this maner: I thanke the God, that I am not as other men, robbers, vnrighteous, aduouters, or as this publican. 12 I fast twyse in the weke, I geue the tithes of all that I haue.
  • Luke 18:20-21 : 20 Thou knowest the comaundementes: Thou shalt not breake wedlocke: Thou shalt not kyll: Thou shalt not steale: Thou shalt not beare false wytnesse: Honoure thy father and yi mother. 21 But he sayde: All these haue I kepte fro my youth vp.
  • Luke 19:21 : 21 I was afrayed of the, for thou art an harde man, thou takest vp yt thou hast not layed downe, and reapest that thou hast not sowne.
  • Rom 3:20 : 20 because yt by ye dedes of the lawe no flesh maye be iustified in his sighte. For by the lawe commeth but the knowlege of synne.
  • Rom 3:27 : 27 Where is now then thy reioysinge? It is excluded. By what lawe? By the lawe of workes? Nay, but by the lawe of faith.
  • Rom 7:9 : 9 As for me, I lyued some tyme without lawe. Howbeit whan the commaundement came, synne reuyued, but I was deed.
  • Rom 10:3 : 3 For they knowe not the righteousnes which auayleth before God, and go aboute to manteyne their awne righteousnes: and thus they are not subdued vnto the righteousnes, that is off value before God.
  • Phil 3:4-6 : 4 though I haue wherof I mighte reioyce in ye flesh. Yf eny other ma thynke that he hath wherof he mighte reioyce in the flesh, moch more I, 5 which was circucysed on the eight daye, one of the people of Israel, of the trybe off Ben Iamin, an hebrue of the Hebrues: as concernynge the lawe a Pharise: 6 as concernynge feruentnes I persecuted the cogregacion: and as touchinge the righteousnes which is in the lawe, I was vnrebukable.
  • 1 John 1:8-9 : 8 Yf we saye that we haue no synne, we disceaue oure selues, and the trueth is not in vs. 9 But yf we knowlege oure synnes, he is faithfull and iust to forgeue vs oure synnes, & to clense vs from all vnrighteousnes. 10 Yf we saye, we haue not synned, we make him a lyar, and his worde is not in vs.
  • Rev 2:17 : 17 Let him yt hath eares, heare, what the sprete saith vnto the cogregacions: To him that ouercommeth, wil I geue to eate mana that is hyd, and wil geue him a whyte stone, & in the stone a newe name wrytte, which no man knoweth, sauinge he that receaueth it.
  • Rev 3:17 : 17 because thou saist thou art riche and incresyd with goodes and hast nede of nothinge, and knowest not how thou art wretched & miserable, poore, blynde, and nakyd.
  • 1 Sam 15:13-14 : 13 Now wha Samuel came to Saul, Saul sayde vnto him: Blessed be thou vnto ye LORDE, I haue perfourmed the worde of ye LORDE. 14 Samuel answered: What crye is this then of shepe in myne eares, and the crye of oxen which I heare?
  • Isa 58:2-3 : 2 For they seke me dalye, and wil knowe my wayes, euen as it were a people that dyd right, and had not forsaken the statutes of their God. They argue with me concernynge right iudgment, and wil pleate at the lawe with their God. 3 Wherfore fast we (saye they) and thou seist it not? we put oure liues to straitnesse, and thou regardest it not?
  • Isa 65:5 : 5 Yf thou comest nye them, they saie: touch me not, for I am holyer then thou. All these men when I am angrie, shalbe turned to smoke and fyre, that shal burne for euer.
  • Zech 7:3 : 3 and that they shulde saye vnto the prestes, which were in the house of the LORDE of hoostes, and to the prophetes: Shulde I wepe in the fyfte moneth, and absteyne, as I haue done now certayne yeares?
  • Mal 1:12-13 : 12 But ye haue vnhalowed it, in that ye saye, the aulter of ye LORDE is not to be regarded, and the thinge that is set thervpon, not worthy to be eaten. 13 Now saye ye: It is but laboure and trauayle, and thus haue ye thought scorne at it, (sayeth the LORDE off hoostes) offerynge robbery, yee the lame and the sicke. Ye haue brought me in a meatofferynge, shulde I accepte it of youre honde, sayeth the LORDE?
  • Mal 3:14 : 14 Ye haue sayed: It is but lost laboure, to serue God: What profit haue we for kepynge his commaundementes, and for walkinge humbly before the LORDE off hoostes?
  • Matt 20:12 : 12 and sayde: These last haue wrought but one houre, and thou hast made the equall vnto us, which haue borne the burthen and heate of the daye.
  • Luke 15:7 : 7 I saye vnto you: Eue so shal there be ioye in heauen ouer one synner that doth pennaunce, more then ouer nyne and nyentye righteous, which nede not repentaunce.
  • Luke 17:10 : 10 So likewyse ye, wha ye haue done all that is comaunded you, saye: We are vnprofitable seruauntes, we haue done that we were bounde to do.
  • Luke 18:9 : 9 And vnto certayne which trusted in the selues, that they were perfecte, and despysed other,he spake this symilitude:

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  • Luke 15:30-32
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    30But now that this thy sonne is come, which deuoured his goodes with harlottes, thou hast slayne a fed calfe.

    31But he sayde vnto him: My sonne, thou art allwaye with me, and all that is myne, is thine:

    32thou shuldest be mery and glad, for this yi brother was deed, and is alyue agayne: he was lost, and is founde agayne.

  • Luke 15:11-28
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    11And he sayde: A certayne man had two sonnes,

    12and the yonger of them sayde vnto the father: Father, geue me the porcion of ye goodes, that belongeth vnto me. And he deuyded the good vnto them.

    13And not longe therafter, gathered the yonger sonne all together, & toke his iourney in to a farre countre, and there waisted he his goodes with ryotous lyuynge.

    14Now whan he had spent all that he had, there was a greate derth thorow out all the same lode. And he begane to lacke,

    15and wente his waye, and claue to a cytesin of that same countre, which sent him in to his felde, to kepe swyne.

    16And he wolde fayne haue fylled his bely with the coddes, that the swyne ate. And no man gaue him them.

    17Then came he to him self, and sayde: How many hyred seruauntes hath my father, which haue bred ynough, and I perish of honger?

    18I wil get vp, and go to my father, and saye vnto him: Father, I haue synned agaynst heauen and before the,

    19and am nomore worthy to be called thy sonne, make me as one of thy hyred seruauntes.

    20And he gat him vp, & came vnto his father. But whan he was yet a greate waye of, his father sawe him, and had copassion, and ranne, and fell aboute his neck, and kyssed him.

    21Then sayde the sonne vnto him: Father, I haue synned agaynst heaue, and before the, I am nomore worthy to be called thy sonne.

    22But the father sayde vnto his seruauntes: Brynge forth the best garment, and put it vpon him, and geue him a rynge vpon his hande, and shues on his fete,

    23and brynge hither a fed calfe, and kyll it, lat vs eate and be mery:

    24for this my sonne was deed, and is alyue agayne: he was lost, and is founde. And they beganne to be mery.

    25But the elder sonne was in the felde. And whan he came, and drewe nye to the house, he herde ye mynstrelsye and daunsynge,

    26and called one of the seruauntes vnto him, and axed what it was.

    27He sayde vnto him: Thy brother is come, and thy father hath slayne a fed calfe, because he hath receaued him safe and sounde.

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    8Is it not thus? that he sayeth vnto him: Make ready, that I maye suppe, gyrde vp thyself, and serue me, tyll I haue eaten and dronken, afterwarde shalt thou eate and drynke also.

    9Thanketh he the same seruaunt also, because he dyd that was commaunded him? I trowe not.

  • Matt 21:28-30
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    28But what thinke ye? A certayne man had two sonnes, and came to the first, and sayde: Go thy waye my sonne, & worke to daye in my vynyarde.

    29He answered and sayde: I wil not, but afterwarde he repented, and wente.

    30He came also vnto the secode, and sayde likewyse. And he answered and saide: I wil syr. And wete not.

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    3But he tolde the this symilitude, and sayde:

  • Gen 27:8-9
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    8Now therfore my sonne, heare my voyce, what I commaunde the:

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  • Matt 25:26-27
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    26But his lorde answered, and sayde vnto him: Thou euell and slouthfull seruaunt, knewest thou that I reape where I sowed not, and gather where I strawed not?

    27Thou shuldest therfore haue had my money to the chaungers, and then at my commynge shulde I haue receaued myne owne with vauntage.

  • Luke 15:6
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  • Luke 19:22-23
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    23Wherfore then hast thou not delyuered my money to the exchaunge banke? And at my commynge might I haue requyred myne awne with vauntage?

  • Matt 25:19
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    19After a longe season the lorde of those seruauntes came, and rekened with them.

  • Matt 18:31-32
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    31Whan his felowes sawe what was done, they were very sory, and came and tolde their lorde all that had happened.

    32Then his lorde called for him, and sayde vnto him: O thou wicked seruaut, I forgaue the all this dett, because thou praydest me:

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  • Matt 20:13-14
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    13He answered and sayde vnto one of them: frende, I do ye no wronge: diddest not thou agree with me for a peny?

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  • John 15:15
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    15Hence forth call I you not seruauntes, for a seruaunt knoweth not what his lorde doeth. But I haue sayde that ye are frendes: For all that I haue herde of my father, haue I shewed vnto you.

  • Luke 16:27
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