But he answered his father, 'See! I have served you all these years and have never disobeyed a command of yours, but you have never given me even a kid, so that I could celebrate with my friends.

To some people who were confident that they themselves were upright, but who scorned everybody else, He told the following story:

circumcised when I was a week old; a descendant of Israel; a member of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew, a son of Hebrews. Measured by the law, I was a Pharisee;

Without

"You have heard that it was said to the men of old, 'You must not murder,' and 'Whoever murders will have to answer to the court.'

For God said, 'Honor your father and mother,' and 'Whoever curses his father or mother must certainly be put to death.'

"You give up what God has commanded,

And i died

So, my brothers, you too in the body of Christ have ended your relation to the law, so that you may be married to another husband, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.

Because no human creature can be brought into right standing with God by observing the law. For all the law can do is to make men conscious of sin.

For through the law I myself have become dead to the law, so that I may live for God.

General references

But he said to Him, "Teacher, I have kept all these commandments ever since I was a child."

about sin, because they do not believe in me;