Luke 15:31

His father said to him: My son, thou hast been ever with me, and all that I have, is thine.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.

In Context

30But for this thy son, when he had dissipated thy property with harlots, and came home, thou hast slain the fatted bullock for him.

32But it was proper for us to be merry, and to rejoice; because this thy brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.

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Cross References

Mark 7:27Jesus said to her: Permit the children first to be satisfied; for it is not becoming, to take the children's bread and cast it to dogs.

Romans 9:4who are sons of Israel, to whom belonged the adoption of sons, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law, and the ministration, and the promises, and the fathers;

Romans 11:35Or who hath first given to him, and then received from him?

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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