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

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Then people went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus' feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.

In hell, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.

As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes 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 struck on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.'

Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?"

He called for lights and sprang in, and, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,

Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,

Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.

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I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.

Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and wandering all her precious things that were from the days of old: when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and no one helped her. The adversaries saw her, they mocked at her desolations.