Luke 15:29

Geneva Bible (1560)

But he answered & said to his father, Loe, these many yeeres haue I done thee seruice, neither brake I at any time thy commadement, and yet thou neuer gauest mee a kidde that I might make merie with my friends.

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  • Luke 18:11-12 : 11 The Pharise stoode and prayed thus with himselfe, O God, I thanke thee that I am not as other men, extortioners, vniust, adulterers, or euen as this Publican. 12 I fast twise in the weeke: I giue tithe of all that euer I possesse.
  • Luke 18:20-21 : 20 Thou knowest the comandements, Thou shalt not commit adulterie: Thou shalt not kill: Thou shalt not steale: Thou shalt not beare false witnes: Honour thy father and thy mother. 21 And hee saide, All these haue I kept from my youth.
  • Luke 19:21 : 21 For I feared thee, because thou art a straight man: thou takest vp, that thou layedst not downe, and reapest that thou diddest not sowe.
  • Rom 3:20 : 20 Therefore by the woorkes of the Lawe shall no flesh be iustified in his sight: for by the Lawe commeth the knowledge of sinne.
  • Rom 3:27 : 27 Where is then the reioycing? It is excluded. By what Lawe? of woorkes? Nay: but by the Lawe of faith.
  • Rom 7:9 : 9 For I once was aliue, wtout the Law: but when the commandement came, sinne reuiued,
  • Rom 10:3 : 3 For they, being ignorant of the righteousnes of God, and going about to stablish their owne righteousnes, haue not submitted themselues to the righteousnes of God.
  • Phil 3:4-6 : 4 Though I might also haue confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, much more I, 5 Circumcised the eight day, of the kinred of Israel, of the tribe of Beniamin, an Ebrewe of the Ebrewes, by the Lawe a Pharise. 6 Concerning zeale, I persecuted ye Church: touching the righteousnesse which is in the Law, I was vnrebukeable.
  • 1 John 1:8-9 : 8 If we say that we haue no sinne, we deceiue our selues, and trueth is not in vs. 9 If we acknowledge our sinnes, he is faithfull and iust, to forgiue vs our sinnes, & to clense vs from all vnrighteousnes. 10 If we say we haue not sinned, wee make him a liar, and his word is not in vs.
  • Rev 2:17 : 17 Let him that hath an eare, heare what the Spirite saith vnto the Churches. To him that ouercommeth, will I giue to eate of the Manna that is hid, and will giue him a white stone, and in the stone a newe name written, which no man knoweth sauing he that receiueth it.
  • Rev 3:17 : 17 For thou saiest, I am rich and increased with goods, and haue neede of nothing, and knowest not howe thou art wretched and miserable, and poore, and blinde, and naked.
  • 1 Sam 15:13-14 : 13 Then Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said vnto him. Blessed be thou of the Lord, I haue fulfilled the commaundement of the Lord. 14 But Samuel saide, What meaneth then the bleating of the sheepe in mine eares, and the lowing of the oxen which I heare?
  • Isa 58:2-3 : 2 Yet they seeke me dayly, and will knowe my wayes, euen as a nation that did righteously, and had not forsaken the statutes of their God: they aske of me the ordinances of iustice: they wil drawe neere vnto God, saying, 3 Wherefore haue we fasted, and thou seest it not? we haue punished our selues, and thou regardest it not. Beholde, in the day of your fast you will seeke your will, and require all your dettes.
  • Isa 65:5 : 5 Which say, Stand apart, come not nere to me: for I am holier then thou: these are a smoke in my wrath & a fire that burneth all the day.
  • Zech 7:3 : 3 And to speake vnto the Priests, which were in the House of the Lorde of hostes, and to the Prophets, saying, Should I weepe in the fift moneth, and separate my selfe as I haue done these so many yeeres?
  • Mal 1:12-13 : 12 But ye haue polluted it, in that ye say, The table of the Lord is polluted & the fruit thereof, euen his meat is not to be regarded. 13 Ye said also, Beholde, it is a wearines, and ye haue snuffed at it, sayth the Lord of hostes, and ye offred that which was torne, and the lame and the sicke: thus yee offred an offring: shoulde I accept this of your hand, sayth the Lord?
  • Mal 3:14 : 14 Ye haue saide, It is in vaine to serue God: and what profite is it that we haue kept his commandement, and that we walked humbly before the Lord of hostes?
  • Matt 20:12 : 12 Saying, These last haue wrought but one houre, and thou hast made them equall vnto vs, which haue borne the burden & heate of the day.
  • Luke 15:7 : 7 I say vnto you, that likewise ioy shall be in heauen for one sinner that conuerteth, more then for ninetie and nine iust men, which neede none amendement of life.
  • Luke 17:10 : 10 So likewise yee, when yee haue done all those things, which are commanded you, say, We are vnprofitable seruants: wee haue done that which was our duetie to doe.
  • Luke 18:9 : 9 He spake also this parable vnto certaine which trusted in themselues that they were iust, and despised other.

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  • Luke 15:30-32
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    30But when this thy sonne was come, which hath deuoured thy good with harlots, thou hast for his sake killed the fat calfe.

    31And he said vnto him, Sonne, thou art euer with me, and al that I haue, is thine.

    32It was meete that we shoulde make merie, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is aliue againe: and hee was lost, but he is found.

  • Luke 15:11-28
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    11He sayde moreouer, A certaine man had two sonnes.

    12And the yonger of them sayde to his father, Father, giue mee the portion of the goods that falleth to mee. So he deuided vnto them his substance.

    13So not many daies after, when the yonger sonne had gathered all together, hee tooke his iourney into a farre countrey, and there hee wasted his goods with riotous liuing.

    14Nowe when hee had spent all, there arose a great dearth throughout that land, and he began to be in necessitie.

    15Then hee went and claue to a citizen of that conntrey, and hee sent him to his farme, to feede swine.

    16And hee would faine haue filled his bellie with the huskes, that the swine ate: but no man gaue them him.

    17Then he came to him selfe, & said, Howe many hired seruaunts at my fathers haue bread ynough, and I die for hunger?

    18I wil rise and goe to my father, and say vnto him, Father, I haue sinned against heaue, and before thee,

    19And am no more worthy to be called thy sonne: make me as one of thy hired seruants.

    20So hee arose and came to his father, and when hee was yet a great way off, his father sawe him, and had compassion, and ranne and fell on his necke, and kissed him.

    21And the sonne sayde vnto him, Father, I haue sinned against heauen, and before thee, and am no more worthie to be called thy sonne.

    22Then the father said to his seruaunts, Bring foorth the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feete,

    23And bring the fat calfe, and kill him, & let vs eate, and be merie:

    24For this my sonne was dead, and is aliue againe: and he was lost, but he is found; they began to be merie.

    25Nowe the elder brother was in the fielde, and when he came and drewe neere to the house, he heard melodie, and dauncing,

    26And called one of his seruaunts, and asked what those things meant.

    27And hee sayde vnto him, Thy brother is come, and thy father hath killed the fatte calfe, because he hath receiued him safe and sound.

    28Then he was angry, and would not goe in: therefore came his father out and entreated him.

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    7Who is it also of you, that hauing a seruant plowing or feeding cattell, woulde say vnto him by and by, when hee were come from the fielde, Goe, and sit downe at table?

    8And woulde not rather say to him, Dresse wherewith I may suppe, and girde thy selfe, and serue mee, till I haue eaten and drunken, and afterward eate thou, and drinke thou?

    9Doeth he thanke that seruant, because hee did that which was commaunded vnto him? I trowe not.

  • Matt 21:28-30
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    28But what thinke ye? A certaine man had two sonnes, and came to the elder, and saide, Sonne, goe and worke to day in my vineyarde.

    29But he answered, and said, I will not: yet afterward he repented himselfe, and went.

    30Then came he to the second, and said likewise; he answered, and said, I will, Syr: yet he went not.

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    3Then spake hee this parable to them, saying,

  • Gen 27:8-9
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    8Nowe therefore, my sonne, heare my voyce in that which I command thee.

    9Get thee nowe to the flocke, and bring me thence two good kids of the goates, that I may make pleasant meate of them for thy father, such as he loueth.

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    26And his master answered, & said vnto him, Thou euill seruant, and slouthfull, thou knewest that I reape where I sowed not, and gather where I strawed not.

    27Thou oughtest therefore to haue put my money to ye exchangers, & then at my comming should I haue receiued mine owne with vantage.

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    6And when he commeth home, he calleth together his friendes and neighbours, saying vnto them, Reioyce with mee: for I haue founde my sheepe which was lost.

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    37But last of all he sent vnto them his owne sonne, saying, They will reuerence my sonne.

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    22Then he sayde vnto him, Of thine owne mouth will I iudge thee, O euill seruant. Thou knewest that I am a straight man, taking vp that I layd not downe, & reaping that I did not sowe.

    23Wherefore then gauest not thou my money into the banke, that at my coming I might haue required it with vantage?

  • Matt 25:19
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    19But after a long season, the master of those seruants came, and reckoned with them.

  • Matt 18:31-32
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    31And when his other felowe seruants sawe what was done, they were very sory, & came, and declared vnto their Lord all that was done.

    32Then his Lord called him vnto him, and sayd to him, O euil seruant, I forgaue thee all that dette, because thou prayedst me.

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  • Gen 30:29
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    29But he sayd vnto him, Thou knowest, what seruice I haue done thee, and in what taking thy cattell hath bene vnder me.

  • Matt 20:13-14
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    13And hee answered one of them, saying, Friend, I doe thee no wrong: didst thou not agree with me for a penie?

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  • John 15:15
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    15Henceforth call I you not seruants: for the seruant knoweth not what his master doeth: but I haue called you friends: for all things that I haue heard of my Father, haue I made knowen to you.

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    27Then he said, I pray thee therfore, father, that thou wouldest sende him to my fathers house,

  • Gen 31:38
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    38This twenty yere I haue bin with thee: thine ewes & thy goates haue not cast their yong, and the rammes of thy flocke haue I not eaten.

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    6Yet had he one sonne, his deare beloued: him also he sent the last vnto them, saying, They will reuerence my sonne.

  • Gen 27:18
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    18And when he came to his father, he sayd, My father. Who answered, I am here: who art thou, my sonne?

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