Luke 15:29
But the older son answered and said to his father, 'Look, these many years I slaved for you, and I never broke a rule of yours, and yet you never gave me a young goat that I might celebrate with my friends,
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28The older son was angry and would not go in, and his father came out and begged him.
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Isaiah 58:2Yet they seek me daily and delight in the knowledge of my ways, 1 like a nation that practiced righteousness and did not abandon the law of their God. 1 They ask me for righteous judgments; they take pleasure in the thought of God coming near. 1
Zechariah 7:3They spoke to the priests who were at the house of Yahweh of hosts and to the prophets; they said, “Should I mourn in the fifth month by means of a fast, as I have done these many years?”
Malachi 3:14You have said, 'It is useless to serve God. What profit is it that we have kept his requirements or walked mournfully before Yahweh of hosts?
Luke 15:7I say to you that even so, there will be joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, more than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.
Luke 18:9Then he also spoke this parable to some who were persuaded in themselves that they were righteous and who despised other people,
Luke 18:20You know the commandments—do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not testify falsely, honor your father and mother.”
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 →