Luke 15:17
And coming to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have abundance of bread, and *I* perish here by famine.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
16And he longed to fill his belly with the husks which the swine were eating; and no one gave to him.
Cross References
Psalms 73:20As a dream, when one awaketh, wilt thou, Lord, on arising despise their image.
Jeremiah 31:19Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after I knew myself, I smote upon [my] thigh. I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, for I bear the reproach of my youth.
Ezekiel 18:28Because he considereth, and turneth from all his transgressions which he hath committed, he shall certainly live, he shall not die.
Luke 15:18I will rise up and go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee;
Acts 2:37And having heard [it] they were pricked in heart, and said to Peter and the other apostles, What shall we do, brethren?
Acts 26:11And often punishing them in all the synagogues, I compelled them to blaspheme. And, being exceedingly furious against them, I persecuted them even to cities out [of our own land].
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 →