but he replied, 'Look at all the years I have been serving you! I have never neglected any of your orders, and yet you have never given me so much as a kid, to let me make merry with my friends.

He also told the following parable to certain persons who were sure of their own goodness and looked down upon everybody else.

I was circumcised on the eighth day after birth; I belonged to the race of Israel, to the tribe of Benjamin; I was the Hebrew son of Hebrew parents, a Pharisee as regards the Law,

Without

You have heard how the men of old were told, 'Murder not: whoever murders must come up for sentence,

God enjoined, Honour your father and mother, and, He who curses his father or mother is to suffer death.

You drop what God commands and hold to human tradition.

And i died

It is the same in your case, my brothers. The crucified body of Christ made you dead to the Law, so that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead that we might be fruitful to God.

for no person will be acquitted in his sight on the score of obedience to law. What the Law imparts is the consciousness of sin.

For through the Law I died to the Law that I might live for God;

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

of sin, because they do not believe in me;