Luke 15:18
I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight:
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
19I am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:47yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captive, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have dealt wickedly;
2 Kings 7:3Now there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
2 Chronicles 33:19His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the graven images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.
Job 36:8And if they be bound in fetters, and be taken in the cords of affliction;
Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Psalms 116:3The cords of death compassed me, and the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
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 →