But he answered his father, "Listen! All these years I've worked like a slave for you. I've never disobeyed a command of yours. Yet you've never given me so much as a young goat for a festival so I could celebrate with my friends.

Jesus also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves, thinking they were righteous, but who looked down on everyone else:

Having been circumcised on the eighth day, I am of the nation of Israel, from the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. As far as the Law is concerned, I was a Pharisee.

Without

"You have heard that it was told those who lived long ago, "You are not to commit murder,' and, "Whoever murders will be subject to punishment.'

Because God said, "You are to honor your father and your mother,' and, "Whoever curses father or mother must certainly be put to death.'

You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition."

And i died

In the same way, my brothers, through the Messiah's body you also died as far as the Law is concerned, so that you may belong to another person, the one who was raised from the dead, and may bear fruit for God.

Therefore, God will not justify any human being by means of the actions prescribed by the Law, for through the Law comes the full knowledge of sin.

For through the Law I died to the Law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with the Messiah.

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The man replied to him, "Teacher, I have obeyed all of these since I was a young man."

of sin, because they don't believe in me;