Luke 15:18

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

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

17But coming, to himself, he said—How many hired servants of my father, have bread enough and to spare, whereas, I, with famine, here, am perishing!

19No longer, am I worthy to be called a son of thine,—Make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose, and came unto his own father.

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:47and they come back to their right mind, in the land whither they have been taken captive,—and so turn and make supplication unto thee, in the land of their captors, saying, We have sinned and done perversely, we have been lawless;

2 Kings 7:3Now there were, four men, lepers, at the entrance of the gate,—and they said one to another—Why are, we, sitting here until we are dead?

2 Chronicles 33:19both his prayer and how [God] was entreated of him—and all his sin and his treacherous act, and the sites whereon he built high places, and set up the Sacred Stems and the images, before he humbled himself, there they are, written in the story of the seers.

Job 36:8But, if, bound in fetters, they have been captured with cords of affliction,

Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones became worn out, Through my groaning all the day;

Psalms 116:3The meshes of death encompassed me, and the distresses of hades, came upon me, Peril and sorrow, I found;

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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