Luke 15:29

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and he answering said to the father, Lo, so many years I do serve thee, and never thy command did I transgress, and to me thou didst never give a kid, that with my friends I might make merry;

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  • Luke 18:11-12 : 11 the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer; 12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all things -- as many as I possess.
  • Luke 18:20-21 : 20 the commands thou hast known: Thou mayest not commit adultery, Thou mayest do no murder, Thou mayest not steal, Thou mayest not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.' 21 And he said, `All these I did keep from my youth;'
  • Luke 19:21 : 21 for I was afraid of thee, because thou art an austere man; thou takest up what thou didst not lay down, and reapest what thou didst not sow.
  • Rom 3:20 : 20 wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.
  • Rom 3:27 : 27 Where then `is' the boasting? it was excluded; by what law? of works? no, but by a law of faith:
  • Rom 7:9 : 9 And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;
  • Rom 10:3 : 3 for not knowing the righteousness of God, and their own righteousness seeking to establish, to the righteousness of God they did not submit.
  • Phil 3:4-6 : 4 though I also have `cause of' trust in flesh. If any other one doth think to have trust in flesh, I more; 5 circumcision on the eighth day! of the race of Israel! of the tribe of Benjamin! a Hebrew of Hebrews! according to law a Pharisee! 6 according to zeal persecuting the assembly! according to righteousness that is in law becoming blameless!
  • 1 John 1:8-9 : 8 if we may say -- `we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us; 9 if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness; 10 if we may say -- `we have not sinned,' a liar we make Him, and His word is not in us.
  • Rev 2:17 : 17 He who is having an ear -- let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: To him who is overcoming, I will give to him to eat from the hidden manna, and will give to him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, that no one knew except him who is receiving `it'.
  • Rev 3:17 : 17 because thou sayest -- I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked,
  • 1 Sam 15:13-14 : 13 And Samuel cometh in unto Saul, and Saul saith to him, `Blessed `art' thou of Jehovah; I have performed the word of Jehovah.' 14 And Samuel saith, `And what `is' the noise of this flock in mine ears -- and the noise of the herd which I am hearing?'
  • Isa 58:2-3 : 2 Seeing -- Me day by day they seek, And the knowledge of My ways they desire, As a nation that righteousness hath done, And the judgment of its God hath not forsaken, They ask of me judgments of righteousness, The drawing near of God they desire: 3 `Why have we fasted, and Thou hast not seen? We have afflicted our soul, and Thou knowest not.' Lo, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, And all your labours ye exact.
  • Isa 65:5 : 5 Who are saying, `Keep to thyself, come not nigh to me, For I have declared thee unholy.' These `are' a smoke in Mine anger, A fire burning all the day.
  • Zech 7:3 : 3 speaking unto the priests who `are' at the house of Jehovah of Hosts, and unto the prophets, saying, `Do I weep in the fifth month -- being separated -- as I have done these so many years?'
  • Mal 1:12-13 : 12 And ye are polluting it in your saying, `The table of Jehovah -- it is polluted, As to its fruit -- despicable is its food.' 13 And ye have said, `Lo, what a weariness,' And ye have puffed at it, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have brought in plunder, And the lame and the sick, And ye have brought in the present! Do I accept it from your hand? said Jehovah.
  • Mal 3:14 : 14 Ye have said, `A vain thing to serve God! And what gain when we kept His charge? And when we have gone in black, Because of Jehovah of Hosts?
  • Matt 20:12 : 12 that These, the last, wrought one hour, and thou didst make them equal to us, who were bearing the burden of the day -- and the heat.
  • Luke 15:7 : 7 `I say to you, that so joy shall be in the heaven over one sinner reforming, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men, who have no need of reformation.
  • Luke 17:10 : 10 `So also ye, when ye may have done all the things directed you, say -- We are unprofitable servants, because that which we owed to do -- we have done.'
  • Luke 18:9 : 9 And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile:

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  • Luke 15:30-32
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    86%

    30 but when thy son -- this one who did devour thy living with harlots -- came, thou didst kill to him the fatted calf.

    31 `And he said to him, Child, thou art always with me, and all my things are thine;

    32 but to be merry, and to be glad, it was needful, because this thy brother was dead, and did live again, he was lost, and was found.'

  • Luke 15:11-28
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    82%

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

    12 and the younger of them said to the father, Father, give me the portion of the substance falling to `me', and he divided to them the living.

    13 `And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously;

    14 and he having spent all, there came a mighty famine on that country, and himself began to be in want;

    15 and having gone on, he joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him to the fields to feed swine,

    16 and he was desirous to fill his belly from the husks that the swine were eating, and no one was giving to him.

    17 `And having come to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I here with hunger am perishing!

    18 having risen, I will go on unto my father, and will say to him, Father, I did sin -- to the heaven, and before thee,

    19 and no more am I worthy to be called thy son; make me as one of thy hirelings.

    20 `And having risen, he went unto his own father, and he being yet far distant, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and having ran he fell upon his neck and kissed him;

    21 and the son said to him, Father, I did sin -- to the heaven, and before thee, and no more am I worthy to be called thy son.

    22 `And the father said unto his servants, Bring forth the first robe, and clothe him, and give a ring for his hand, and sandals for the feet;

    23 and having brought the fatted calf, kill `it', and having eaten, we may be merry,

    24 because this my son was dead, and did live again, and he was lost, and was found; and they began to be merry.

    25 `And his elder son was in a field, and as, coming, he drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing,

    26 and having called near one of the young men, he was inquiring what these things might be,

    27 and he said to him -- Thy brother is arrived, and thy father did kill the fatted calf, because in health he did receive him back.

    28 `And he was angry, and would not go in, therefore his father, having come forth, was entreating him;

  • Luke 17:7-9
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    7 `But, who is he of you -- having a servant ploughing or feeding -- who, to him having come in out of the field, will say, Having come near, recline at meat?

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    9 Hath he favour to that servant because he did the things directed? I think not.

  • Matt 21:28-30
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    28 `And what think ye? A man had two children, and having come to the first, he said, Child, go, to-day be working in my vineyard.'

    29 And he answering said, `I will not,' but at last, having repented, he went.

    30 `And having come to the second, he said in the same manner, and he answering said, I `go', sir, and went not;

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    3 And he spake unto them this simile, saying,

  • Gen 27:8-9
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    8 `And now, my son, hearken to my voice, to that which I am commanding thee:

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    26 `And his lord answering said to him, Evil servant, and slothful, thou hadst known that I reap where I did not sow, and I gather whence I did not scatter!

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  • Matt 18:31-32
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    31 `And his fellow-servants having seen the things that were done, were grieved exceedingly, and having come, shewed fully to their lord all the things that were done;

    32 then having called him, his lord saith to him, Evil servant! all that debt I did forgive thee, seeing thou didst call upon me,

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    2 and having called him, he said to him, What `is' this I hear about thee? render the account of thy stewardship, for thou mayest not any longer be steward.

  • Gen 30:29
    68%

    29 And he saith unto him, `Thou -- thou hast known that which I have served thee `in', and that which thy substance was with me;

  • Matt 20:13-14
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    68%

    13 `And he answering said to one of them, Comrade, I do no unrighteousness to thee; for a denary didst not thou agree with me?

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    68%

    15 no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.

  • Luke 16:27
    68%

    27 `And he said, I pray thee, then, father, that thou mayest send him to the house of my father,

  • Gen 31:38
    68%

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    6 `Having yet therefore one son -- his beloved -- he sent also him unto them last, saying -- They will reverence my son;

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    18 And he cometh in unto his father, and saith, `My father;' and he saith, `Here `am' I; who `art' thou, my son?'

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    37 And Isaac answereth and saith to Esau, `Lo, a mighty one have I set him over thee, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants, and `with' corn and wine have I sustained him; and for thee now, what shall I do, my son?'