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:

Lo

Yet

Luke 15:7

Luke 19:21

Revelation 2:17

General references

Luke 15:2

Luke 18:21

Bible References

Lo

Likewise also, when you may do those things which are commanded you, say that, We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which we ought to do.

And He spoke this parable to certain ones having confidence in themselves that they are righteous, and despising the rest.

saying, These labored one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, who bore the burden of the day and the heat.

Therefore no flesh shall be justified by works of law: for through law there is a perfect knowledge of sin.

But I was alive at one time without law: but the commandment having come, sin revived,

for being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

even though also having confidence in the flesh. If any other one seems to have confidence in the flesh, I the more:

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

Because you are saying, That I am rich, and have increased in riches, and have need as to nothing, and do you not know that you are miserable, and pitiful, and poor, and blind, and naked?

Yet

I say unto you that so there will be joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, rather than ninety and nine just persons who have not need of repentance.

for I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that which thou hadst not laid down, and thou reapest that which thou hast not sown.

Let the one having ears hear what the Spirit says to the churches; unto the one conquering will I give to him of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone my new name having been written, which no one knows but the one receiving it.

General references

And the Pharisees and scribes were murmuring, saying, that, He receives sinners, and eats with them.

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