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

Revelation 2:17

General references

Jeremiah 35:16

Luke 15:2

Luke 18:21

Bible References

Lo

So also ye, when ye do all appointed you, say, That we are useless servants: for what we ought to do, we have done.

And he spake to certain trusting upon themselves that they were just, and setting at nought the rest, this parable:

And Samuel will come to Saul: and Saul will say to him, Blessed thou of Jehovah: I set up the word of Jehovah.

And day, day, they will seek me, and delight to know my way as a nation who did justice and forsook not the judgment of his God: they will ask me the judgments of justice, they will delight to draw near to Gad.

Saying, Come near to thyself; thou shalt not touch upon me, for I was clean to thee. These a smoke in my wrath, a fire burning all the day.

To speak to the priests which were to the house of Jehovah of armies, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself according as I did, how many the years?

Saying, That these last worked one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, having borne the burden and heat of the day.

Therefore from the works of the law shall no flesh be justified before him: for by the law the knowledge of sin.

And I was living without law once: and the command having come, sin came back to life, and I died.

For not knowing the justice of God, and seeking to establish their own justice, they have not been subjected to the justice of God.

Although I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other think to have confidence in the flesh, I more:

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

For thou sayest, That I am rich, and have abounded, and have need of nothing; and thou knowest not that thou art wretched, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked;

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I say to you, that so shall joy be in heaven over one sinful repenting, more than over ninety-nine just, which have no need of repentance.

For I feared thee, for thou art an austere man: thou takest up what thou layedst not down, and thou reapest what thou didst not sow.

And ye profaning it in your saying, The table of Jehovah it being polluted; and its fruit, its food was despised.

Ye said, Vanity to serve God: and what profit that we watched his watches, and that we went mourning from the face of Jehovah of armies?

He having ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches; To him conquering will I give to eat from the hidden manna, and I will give him a white small stone, and upon the small stone a new name written, which none knew except he receiving.

General references

For the sons of Jonadab son of Rechab raised up the commands of their father which be commanded them; and this people heard not to me.

And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, That this receives the sinful, and eats together with them.

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