Luke 15:31

And he said to him, Child, you are always with me, and all my things are yours;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.

In Context

30but when your son—this one who devoured your living with prostitutes—came, you killed to him the fatted calf.

32but to be merry, and to be glad, it was necessary, because this your brother was dead, and lived again, he was lost, and was found.”

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Cross References

Mark 7:27And Jesus said to her, “First permit the children to be filled, for it is not good to take the children’s bread, and to cast [it] to the little dogs.”

Romans 9:4who are Israelites, whose [is] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the service, and the promises,

Romans 11:35Or who first gave to Him, and it will be given back to him again?

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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