Luke 15:18

I will leave here and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.

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In The King James Version

I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

In Context

17But when the young son came to himself, he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough food, and I am here, dying from hunger!

19I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me as one of your hired servants.”'

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:47Then suppose that they realize they are in the land where they have been exiled, and suppose that they repent and seek favor from you from the land of their captors. Suppose that they say, 'We have acted perversely and sinned. We have behaved wickedly.'

2 Kings 7:3Now there were four men with leprosy right outside the city gate. They said one to another, “Why should we sit here until we die?

2 Chronicles 33:19In that account there is history of his prayer, and how God was moved by it. There is also an account of all his sin and his trespasses, and the places where he had built high places and set up the Asherah poles and the carved figures, before he humbled himself—they are written about in the Chronicles of the Seers. + 33:19 Some modern versions have the Chronicles of Hozai , which is the reading of the original text. But many modern versions correct it to read the Chronicles of the Seers . Also, a few modern versions have the Chronicles of his seers .

Job 36:8If they are bound in chains 1 and trapped in cords of suffering, 1

Psalms 32:3When I remained silent, my bones were wasting away 1 while I groaned all day long. 1

Psalms 116:3The cords of death surrounded me, 1 and the snares of Sheol confronted me; 1 I felt anguish and sorrow. 1

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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