Luke 15:19
I am no longer good enough to be named your son: make me like one of your servants.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
In Context
Cross References
Joshua 9:24And, answering Joshua, they said, Because it came to the ears of your servants that the Lord your God had given orders to his servant Moses to give you all this land, and to send destruction on all the people living in it, because of you; so, fearing greatly for our lives because of you, we have done this.
Psalms 84:10\84:9\O God, let your eyes be on him who is our safe cover, and let your heart be turned to your king.
Luke 5:8But Simon, when he saw it, went down at the knees of Jesus and said, Go away from me, O Lord, for I am a sinner.
1 Corinthians 15:9For I am the least of the Apostles, having no right to be named an Apostle, because of my cruel attacks on the church of God.
James 4:8Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.
Matthew Henry on Luke 15:12-32
The Prodigal Son. 11 And he said, A certain man had two sons: 12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. 13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. 14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. 15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that… Read the whole commentary →