Prodigal Son

He said, “A certain man had two sons. — read the full passage →

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. — read the full passage →

But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’”

He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.

for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ They began to celebrate.

“He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

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!

He said, “A certain man had two sons.

Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

“But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.

The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.’ He divided his livelihood between them.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” says Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck,

“He said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. — read the full passage →

“Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.

But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.

He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

Or what woman, if she had ten drachmacoins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it? — read the full passage →

When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him. — read the full passage →

Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” — read the full passage →

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others. — read the full passage →

“He said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.

But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’

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! — read the full passage →

When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’

The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. — read the full passage →

Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

‘For in him we live, and move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’

But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends. — read the full passage →

Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate;

I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants.”’

He who robs his father and drives away his mother, is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him.

He said, “A certain man had two sons. — read the full passage →

But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’

For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them;

The pig, because he has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn’t chew the cud, he is unclean to you.

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back, — read the full passage →

in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ; — read the full passage →

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, — read the full passage →

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy. — read the full passage →

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.

They all wept a lot, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions. — read the full passage →

He said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.’

He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on.

“He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. — read the full passage →