Luke 15:19

and I am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hirelings.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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

20And he arose and came to his father. But when he was yet at a considerable distance, his father discovered him, and was moved with compassion, and running, fell on his neck, and kissed him again and again.

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Cross References

Luke 5:8Then Simon Peter seeing it, fell down on his knees before Jesus, saying, Go from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord!

1 Corinthians 15:9For I am the least of the apostles, who am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

James 4:8Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Make clean your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.

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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