Luke 15:19
and I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me as one of your hired workers.
Literal Standard 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
Cross References
Joshua 9:24And they answer Joshua and say, “Because it was certainly declared to your servants that your God YHWH commanded His servant Moses to give all the land to you, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; and we fear greatly for ourselves because of you, and we do this thing;
Psalms 84:10For a day in Your courts [is] good, O Teacher! I have chosen rather to be at the threshold, || In the house of my God, || Than to dwell in tents of wickedness.
Luke 5:8And Simon Peter having seen, fell down at the knees of Jesus, saying, “Depart from me, because I am a sinful man, O Lord”;
1 Corinthians 15:9for I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the Assembly of God,
James 4:8draw near to God, and He will draw near to you; cleanse hands, you sinners! And purify hearts, you split-souled!
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 →