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Luke 15:17
Luke 15:17 is verse 17 of Luke chapter 15, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food? But here I am, starving to death!
King James Version
And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
World English Bible
But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!
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Luke 15:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible
15 So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.
16 He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.
17 Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food? But here I am, starving to death!
18 I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.”’
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Cross-references
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Luke 8:35So the people went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and found the man whom the demons had left, sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
Luke 16:23In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side.
Psalms 73:20Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.
Ecclesiastes 9:3This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.
Jeremiah 31:19After I returned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
Ezekiel 18:28Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die.
Acts 2:37When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
Acts 16:29Calling for lights, the jailer rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas.
Acts 16:30Then he brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
Acts 26:11I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, and I tried to make them blaspheme. In my raging fury against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.
Acts 26:12In this pursuit I was on my way to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests.
Acts 26:13About noon, O king, as I was on the road, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and my companions.
Acts 26:14We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice say to me in Hebrew, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’
Acts 26:15‘Who are You, Lord?’ I asked. ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,’ the Lord replied.
Acts 26:16‘But get up and stand on your feet. For I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen from Me and what I will show you.
Acts 26:17I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them
Acts 26:18to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’
Acts 26:19So then, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.
Ephesians 2:4But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
Ephesians 2:5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!
Ephesians 5:14So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
Titus 3:4But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared,
Titus 3:5He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
Titus 3:6This is the Spirit He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
James 1:16Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
James 1:17Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
James 1:18He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.
Luke 15:18I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
Luke 15:19I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.”’
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