Luke 15:17
And having come to himself, he said, How many hired workers of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I am perishing here with hunger!
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Psalms 73:20As a dream from awakening, O Lord, || In awaking, You despise their image.
Jeremiah 31:19For after my turning back I regretted, || And after my being instructed I struck on the thigh, || I have been ashamed, I have also blushed, || For I have borne the reproach of my youth.
Ezekiel 18:28And he sees and turns back, || From all his transgressions that he has done, || He surely lives, he does not die,
Luke 15:18Having risen, I will go on to my father, and will say to him, Father, I sinned—to Heaven, and before you,
Acts 2:37And having heard, they were pricked to the heart; they also say to Peter and to the rest of the apostles, “What will we do, men, brothers?”
Acts 26:11and in every synagogue, often punishing them, I was constraining [them] to speak evil, being also exceedingly mad against them, I was also persecuting [them] even to strange cities.
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 →