Luke 15:18
I shall rise up and go to my father, and I will say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
In Context
19I am not worthy to be called your son. Make me one of your hired hands.’
Cross References
1 Kings 8:47and if they do penance in their heart, in the place of captivity, and having been converted, make supplication to you in their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned; we acted unjustly; we committed impiety,’
2 Kings 7:3Now there were four lepers beside the entrance of the gate. And they said one to another: “Should we choose to stay here until we die?
2 Chronicles 33:19Also, his prayer and its heeding, and all his sins and contempt, and the sites on which he built high places and made sacred groves and statues, before he repented, have been written in the words of Hozai.
Job 36:8And, if they are in captivity, or are bound with the chains of poverty,
Psalms 32:3Sing to him a new song. Sing psalms to him skillfully, with loud exclamation.
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 →