Luke 15:19

and am no longer worthy to be called thy son. Make me like one of thy hired servants.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 say to him: My father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee;

20And he arose and went towards his father. And he was yet at a distance, when his father saw him; and he pitied him, and ran, and fell upon his neck and kissed him.

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Cross References

Luke 5:8And when Simon Cephas saw it, he fell before the feet of Jesus, and said to him: I beseech thee, my Lord, that thou leave me, for I am a sinful man.

1 Corinthians 15:9I am the least of the legates; and am not worthy to be called a legate; because I persecuted the church of God.

James 4:8Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners: sanctify your hearts, ye divided in mind.

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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