Luke 15:20

World English Bible (2000)

"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.

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  • Gen 45:14 : 14 He fell on his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.
  • Gen 46:29 : 29 Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
  • Ps 86:5 : 5 For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
  • Ps 86:15 : 15 But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
  • Isa 49:15 : 15 "Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!
  • Deut 30:2-4 : 2 and shall return to Yahweh your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul; 3 that then Yahweh your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples, where Yahweh your God has scattered you. 4 If [any of] your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there will Yahweh your God gather you, and from there he will bring you back:
  • Gen 33:4 : 4 Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.
  • Acts 20:37 : 37 They all wept a lot, and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him,
  • Eph 2:13 : 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.
  • 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 yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says Yahweh.
  • Ps 103:10-13 : 10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us for our iniquities. 11 For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him. 12 As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. 13 Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.
  • Isa 55:6-9 : 6 Seek Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near: 7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. 8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," says Yahweh. 9 "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
  • Isa 57:18 : 18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
  • Job 33:27-28 : 27 He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn't profit me. 28 He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall see the light.'
  • Ezek 16:6-8 : 6 When I passed by you, and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you, [Though you are] in your blood, live; yes, I said to you, [Though you are] in your blood, live. 7 I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent ornament; your breasts were fashioned, and your hair was grown; yet you were naked and bare. 8 Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord Yahweh, and you became mine.
  • Hos 11:8 : 8 "How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.
  • Mic 7:18-19 : 18 Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn't retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness. 19 He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
  • Acts 2:39 : 39 For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself."
  • Eph 2:17 : 17 He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.

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  • Luke 15:21-32
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    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 15:11-19
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    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.

    17 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!

    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."'

  • Gen 33:4
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    4 Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.

  • 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?"

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    1 Joseph fell on his father's face, wept on him, and kissed him.

  • Gen 27:26-27
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    26 His father Isaac said to him, "Come near now, and kiss me, my son."

    27 He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, "Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.

  • Mark 14:45
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    45 When he had come, immediately he came to him, and said, "Rabbi! Rabbi!" and kissed him.

  • Luke 15:3-6
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    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!'

  • Gen 46:29
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    29 Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

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    27 The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.

  • Gen 29:13
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    13 It happened, when Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister's son, that he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.

  • Gen 45:14-15
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    14 He fell on his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.

    15 He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.

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    13 But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!'

  • Mark 10:50
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    50 He, casting away his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus.

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    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.

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    68%

    33 So Joab came to the king, and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom.

  • Luke 19:6
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    6 He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.

  • Mark 5:6
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    6 When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him,

  • Matt 26:49
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    49 Immediately he came to Jesus, and said, "Hail, Rabbi!" and kissed him.

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

  • Matt 18:11
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    11 For the Son of Man came to save that which was lost.

  • Matt 22:2
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    2 "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son,

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    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 16:27
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    27 "He said, 'I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house;