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Luke 15:17

Then he came to him selfe, and said, Howe many hired seruaunts at my fathers haue bread ynough, and I die for hunger?

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

In Context

16And hee would faine haue filled his bellie with the huskes, that the swine ate: but no man gaue them him.

18I wil rise and goe to my father, and say vnto him, Father, I haue sinned against heaue, and before thee,

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Cross References

Psalms 73:20As a dreame when one awaketh! O Lord, when thou raisest vs vp, thou shalt make their image despised.

Jeremiah 31:19Surely after that I conuerted, I repented: and after that I was instructed, I smote vpon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, euen confounded, because I did beare the reproch of my youth.

Ezekiel 18:28Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that hee hath committed, he shall surely liue and shall not die.

Luke 15:18I wil rise and goe to my father, and say vnto him, Father, I haue sinned against heaue, and before thee,

Acts 2:37Now when they heard it, they were pricked in their heartes, and said vnto Peter and the other Apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we doe?

Acts 26:11And I punished them throughout all the Synagogues, and compelled them to blaspheme, and being more mad against them, I persecuted them, euen vnto strange cities.

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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