Luke 15:18

I will arise, and will go to my father, and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee:

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

In Context

17And returning to himself, he said: How many hired servants in my father's house abound with bread, and I here perish with hunger?

19I am not worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:47Then if they do penance in their heart in the place of captivity, and being converted make supplication to thee in their captivity, saying: We have sinned, we have done unjustly, we have committed wickedness:

2 Kings 7:3Now there were four lepers, at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another: What mean we to stay here till we die?

2 Chronicles 33:19His prayer also, and his being heard, and all his sins, and contempt, and places wherein he built high places, and set up groves, and statues before he did penance, are written in the words of Hozai.

Job 36:8And if they shall be in chains, and be bound with the cords of poverty :

Psalms 32:3Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the day long.

Psalms 116:3dummy verses inserted by amos

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 →

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