Luke 15:17

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Summary

And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

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Luke 15:18

Lamentations 1:7

Bible References

When

And they went out to see what had come to pass; and they came to Jesus, and found the man, from whom the demons were gone out, sitting, clothed and in his right mind, at the feet of Jesus: and they were afraid.

And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

As a dream when one awaketh, So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and the rest of the apostles, Brethren, what shall we do?

And he called for lights and sprang in, and, trembling for fear, fell down before Paul and Silas,

And punishing them oftentimes in all the synagogues, I strove to make them blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto foreign cities.

but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

Wherefore he'saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.

But when the kindness of God our Saviour, and his love toward man, appeared,

Be not deceived, my beloved brethren.

How

I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight:

Jerusalem remembereth in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: When her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and none did help her, The adversaries saw her, they did mock at her desolations.