Luke 15:29
He told his father, ‘Look, all these years I've served you, and never disobeyed you, but you never once gave me even a young goat so I could have a party with my friends.
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28The brother became angry. He refused to go in. So his father came out to plead with him.
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Isaiah 58:2Every day they come to me, pleased to know my ways as if they were a nation that does what is right and follows the laws of their God! They ask me to treat them right; they like to be close to their God.
Zechariah 7:3They were to ask the priests of the Temple of the Lord Almighty and the prophets, “Should I go on mourning and fasting in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”
Malachi 3:14You have said, “What's the point of serving God? What benefit is there in keeping his commandments or going before the Lord Almighty with long faces?
Luke 15:7I tell you that there's more joy in heaven over a sinner that repents than over ninety-nine good people who don't need to repent.
Luke 18:9He also told this story about those who are so sure that they are living right, and who put everybody else down.
Luke 18:20You know the commandments: do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.”
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 →