Luke 15:31

‘Child,’ the father answered, ‘you are always with me, and everything that I have is yours.

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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, no sooner has this son of yours come, who has eaten up your property in the company of prostitutes, than you have killed the fattened calf for him.’

32But how could we not celebrate and rejoice? Here is your brother who was dead and is alive, who was lost and is found.’”

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Cross References

Mark 7:27“Let the children be satisfied first,” answered Jesus. “For it is not fair to take the children’s food, and throw it to dogs.”

Romans 9:4For they are Israelites, and theirs are the adoption as children, the visible presence, the covenants, the revealed Law, the Temple worship, and the promises.

Romans 11:35Or who has first given to him, so that he may claim a reward?

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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