Luke 15:19
I am no longer fit to be called your son; make me one of your hired servants.”’
Open English Bible (US)
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 will get up and go to my father, and say to him “Father, I sinned against heaven and against you;
Cross References
Joshua 9:24They answered Joshua, “It was because we, your servants, were assured that the Lord your God had ordered his servant Moses to assign you all the land and to destroy all the people living in it. That put us in terror of our lives before you, and so we did this.
Psalms 84:10for better a single day in your courts than a thousand in my own chambers: better stand at the door of the house of my God than live in the tents of ungodliness,
Luke 5:8When Simon Peter saw this, he threw himself down at Jesus’ knees, exclaiming, “Master, leave me, for I am a sinful man!”
1 Corinthians 15:9For I am the least of the apostles, I who am unworthy of the name of ‘apostle,’ because I persecuted the church of God.
James 4:8Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Make your hands clean, you sinners; and your hearts pure, you vacillators!
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 →