but he answered his father, 'Look, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command, yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

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

circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;

Without

"You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.'

For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.'

You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men."

And i died

Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.

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

For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God.

General references

And he said to him, "Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth."

concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;