Luke 15:19
I'm no longer worthy to be called your son. Please treat me as one of your hired workers.’
Free Bible Version
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
18I'm going home to my father! I'll tell him: Father, I've sinned against heaven and against you.
Cross References
Joshua 9:24They answered Joshua, “We your servants were told very clearly that the Lord your God had ordered Moses to give you all this land, and that all its inhabitants were to be wiped out before you. So we really feared for our lives because of you. That's why we did what we did.
Psalms 84:10One day in your courts is better than a thousand anywhere else. I'd rather stand as a doorkeeper in the house of my God than live comfortably in the homes of the wicked.
Luke 5:8When Simon Peter saw what had happened, he dropped to his knees before Jesus. “Lord, please stay away from me, for I am a sinful man!” he exclaimed.
1 Corinthians 15:9For I'm the least important apostle of all, not even fit to be called an apostle since I persecuted God's church.
James 4:8Come close to God and he will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners. Purify your way of thinking, you people with divided loyalties.
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 →