Luke 15:17

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Ezek 18:28 : 28 Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
  • Acts 26:11-19 : 11 Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities. 12 "Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests, 13 at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me. 14 When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.' 15 "I said, 'Who are you, Lord?' "He said, 'I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. 16 But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you; 17 delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, 18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.' 19 "Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,
  • Eph 2:4-5 : 4 But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
  • Luke 15:18-19 : 18 I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. 19 I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants."'
  • Luke 16:23 : 23 In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.
  • Acts 2:37 : 37 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?"
  • Acts 16:29-30 : 29 He called for lights and sprang in, and, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas, 30 and brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"
  • Ps 73:20 : 20 As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
  • Eccl 9:3 : 3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
  • Jer 31:19 : 19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I struck on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
  • Lam 1:7 : 7 Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and none did help her, The adversaries saw her, they did mock at her desolations.
  • Luke 8:35 : 35 People went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus' feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
  • Titus 3:4-6 : 4 But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared, 5 not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior;
  • Jas 1:16-18 : 16 Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow. 18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

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  • Luke 15:11-16
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    89%

    11 He said, "A certain man had two sons.

    12 The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of your property.' He divided his livelihood between them.

    13 Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

    14 When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.

    15 He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

    16 He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.

  • Luke 15:18-32
    15 verses
    87%

    18 I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.

    19 I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants."'

    20 "He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

    21 The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'

    22 "But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.

    23 Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate;

    24 for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.' They began to celebrate.

    25 "Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

    26 He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on.

    27 He said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.'

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

    29 But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

    30 But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.'

    31 "He said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.

    32 But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.'"

  • Luke 15:3-6
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    74%

    3 He told them this parable.

    4 "Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn't leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

    5 When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

    6 When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!'

  • Luke 16:3-5
    3 verses
    73%

    3 "The manager said within himself, 'What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don't have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.

    4 I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.'

    5 Calling each one of his lord's debtors to him, he said to the first, 'How much do you owe to my lord?'

  • Luke 12:16-19
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    73%

    16 He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.

    17 He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?'

    18 He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

    19 I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'

  • Luke 17:7-8
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    72%

    7 But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, 'Come immediately and sit down at the table,'

    8 and will not rather tell him, 'Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink'?

  • Luke 16:27
    71%

    27 "He said, 'I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house;

  • Gen 27:18
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    18 He came to his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"

  • Luke 14:15-16
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    15 When one of those who sat at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, "Blessed is he who will feast in the Kingdom of God!"

    16 But he said to him, "A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people.

  • Matt 21:28-29
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    70%

    28 But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, 'Son, go work today in my vineyard.'

    29 He answered, 'I will not,' but afterward he changed his mind, and went.

  • Luke 16:1
    70%

    1 He also said to his disciples, "There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

  • Matt 18:11-13
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    69%

    11 For the Son of Man came to save that which was lost.

    12 "What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn't he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?

    13 If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.

  • 2 Sam 12:3
    69%

    3 but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and raised. It grew up together with him, and with his children. It ate of his own food, drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was to him like a daughter.

  • Matt 18:32
    69%

    32 Then his lord called him in, and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.

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

  • Gen 43:2
    68%

    2 It happened, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little more food."

  • Luke 19:15
    68%

    15 "It happened when he had come back again, having received the kingdom, that he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business.

  • Luke 16:21
    68%

    21 and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.