Luke 15:29

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:

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Yet

Revelation 2:17

General references

Jeremiah 35:16

Luke 15:2

Luke 18:21

Bible References

Lo

So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, 'We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.'"

He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt:

And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, "Blessed be you to the LORD. I have performed the commandment of the LORD."

Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.

who say, "Keep to yourself, do not come near me, for I am too holy for you." These are a smoke in my nostrils, a fire that burns all the day.

saying to the priests of the house of the LORD of hosts and the prophets, "Should I weep and abstain in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?"

saying, 'These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.'

For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.

For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.

though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh also. If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more:

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.

Yet

Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

for I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You take what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.'

But you profane it when you say that the Lord's table is polluted, and its fruit, that is, its food may be despised.

You have said, 'It is vain to serve God. What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the LORD of hosts?

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.'

General references

The sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have kept the command that their father gave them, but this people has not obeyed me.

And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, "This man receives sinners and eats with them."

And he said, "All these I have kept from my youth."