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 ye, when ye do all the things that were commanded you, say, 'We are unprofitable servants; we have done what it was our duty to do.'

And He spake also this parable to some who had trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised the rest:

saying, 'These last wrought but one hour, and you made them equal with us, who bore the burden of the day and the burning heat!'

because, by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the law is the knowledge of sin.

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

for, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God;

though I might have confidence even in flesh; if any other man supposes that he has occasion for confidence in flesh, I more:

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

Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing'; and do not know that you are the wretched one, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked!

Yet

I say to you, that so there will be joy in Heaven over one sinner that repents, more than over ninety-nine righteous men who have no need of repentance.

for I feared you, because you are a harsh man; you take up what you did not lay down, and reap what you did not sow.'

He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies. To him that overcomes, to him will I give of the Hidden Manna; and I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which no one knows, but he that receives it.

General references

And both the scribes and the Pharisees were murmuring, saying, "This Man receiveth sinners and eateth with them!"

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