"'All these years I have been slaving for you and never disobeyed a command of yours. Yet you never gave me even a kid so that I might make merry with my friends.

Moreover he spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves because they were righteous, and looked down upon the rest.

circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew sprung from the Hebrews; as to the Law, a Pharisee;

Without

"You have heard that it was said to the ancients, "Thou shall not commit murder, and "He who commits murder shall be liable to condemnation by the court;

"For God said, Honor your father and mother, and, Let him who reviles father or mother be put to death;

"You neglect the commandment of God, and hold fast the traditions of men."

And i died

So also, my brother, you were made dead to the Law through the body of Christ; that you should be joined to another, even to Him who was raised from the dead that we might bear fruit for God.

For no man will be justified in God's sight by works of the Law; for through the Law comes the consciousness of sin.

For it is through law I died to law, in order to live to God.

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"Teacher," he answered, "I have observed all these from my youth."

of sin, because they do not believe in me;