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

So also you, when you have done all things commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants; what we owed the doing of; we have done.

And he also spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:

saying, These last have worked but one hour, and you have made them equal with us, who have borne the burden and heat of the day.

Wherefore by the works of the law there shall no flesh be justified is his sight, for by the law there is an acknowledgment of sin.

And I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died,

for not knowing God's righteousness, and seeking to set up their righteousness, they have not submitted themselves to God's righteousness.

although I have ground of confidence in the flesh. If any other one thinks he may trust in the flesh, I [may] more;

If we say we have not sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

For you say, I am rich and have become rich and have need of nothing, and know not that you are miserable, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked.

Yet

So, I tell you, there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner that changes his mind, more than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need a change of mind.

for I feared you, because you are an austere man; you take up what you laid not down, and reap what you did not sow.

Let him that has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches; To him that conquers will I give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white token, and on the token a new name engraved, which no one knows but he that receives it.

General references

And both the Pharisees and scribes complained, saying, This man receives sinners and eats with them.

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