Prodigal Son

And he said, `A certain man had two sons, — read the full passage →

And all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming nigh to him, to hear him, — read the full passage →

but to be merry, and to be glad, it was needful, because this thy brother was dead, and did live again, he was lost, and was found.'

and he was desirous to fill his belly from the husks that the swine were eating, and no one was giving to him.

because this my son was dead, and did live again, and he was lost, and was found; and they began to be merry.

`And having risen, he went unto his own father, and he being yet far distant, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and having ran he fell upon his neck and kissed him;

`And having come to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I here with hunger am perishing!

And he said, `A certain man had two sons,

`And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously;

and the son said to him, Father, I did sin--to the heaven, and before thee, and no more am I worthy to be called thy son.

`I say to you, that so joy shall be in the heaven over one sinner reforming, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men, who have no need of reformation.

`And the father said unto his servants, Bring forth the first robe, and clothe him, and give a ring for his hand, and sandals for the feet;

and the younger of them said to the father, Father, give me the portion of the substance falling to <FI>me<Fi> , and he divided to them the living.

For not My thoughts <FI>are<Fi> your thoughts, Nor your ways My ways, --an affirmation of Jehovah, — read the full passage →

And Pharaoh turneth aside his seal-ring from off his hand, and putteth it on the hand of Joseph, and clotheth him <FI>with<Fi> garments of fine linen, and placeth a chain of gold on his neck,

`And he said to him, Child, thou art always with me, and all my things are thine; — read the full passage →

`And his elder son was in a field, and as, coming, he drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing,

But the first-born, son of the hated one, he doth acknowledge, to give to him a double portion of all that is found with him, for he <FI>is<Fi> the beginning of his strength; to him <FI>is<Fi> the right of the first-born.

and he answering said to the father, Lo, so many years I do serve thee, and never thy command did I transgress, and to me thou didst never give a kid, that with my friends I might make merry;

And all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming nigh to him, to hear him,

and having gone on, he joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him to the fields to feed swine,

`So I say to you, joy doth come before the messengers of God over one sinner reforming.'

`Or what woman having ten drachms, if she may lose one drachm, doth not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek carefully till that she may find? — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, on his going into the house of a certain one of the chiefs of the Pharisees, on a sabbath, to eat bread, that they were watching him, — read the full passage →

And lo, a certain lawyer stood up, trying him, and saying, `Teacher, what having done, life age-during shall I inherit?' — read the full passage →

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

no one is able to come unto me, if the Father who sent me may not draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day;

And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile: — read the full passage →

`And he said to him, Child, thou art always with me, and all my things are thine;

but when thy son--this one who did devour thy living with harlots--came, thou didst kill to him the fatted calf.

`And having come to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I here with hunger am perishing! — read the full passage →

and having come to the house, he doth call together the friends and the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, because I found my sheep--the lost one.

and the Pharisees and the scribes were murmuring, saying--This one doth receive sinners, and doth eat with them.'

And all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming nigh to him, to hear him, — read the full passage →

Who <FI>is<Fi> a God like Thee? taking away iniquity, And passing by the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance, He hath not retained for ever His anger, Because He--He delighteth <FI>in<Fi> kindness.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

`What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one out of them, doth not leave behind the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go on after the lost one, till he may find it?

having risen, I will go on unto my father, and will say to him, Father, I did sin--to the heaven, and before thee,

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.

and having removed him, He did raise up to them David for king, to whom also having testified, he said, I found David, the <FI>son<Fi> of Jesse, a man according to My heart, who shall do all My will.

and he answering said to the father, Lo, so many years I do serve thee, and never thy command did I transgress, and to me thou didst never give a kid, that with my friends I might make merry; — read the full passage →

and having brought the fatted calf, kill <FI>it<Fi> , and having eaten, we may be merry,

and no more am I worthy to be called thy son; make me as one of thy hirelings.

Whoso is spoiling a father causeth a mother to flee, A son causing shame, and bringing confusion.

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

honour thy father and mother,

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

and he having spent all, there came a mighty famine on that country, and himself began to be in want;

All of us like sheep have wandered, Each to his own way we have turned, And Jehovah hath caused to meet on him, The punishment of us all.

The Visions of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

Also you--being dead in the trespasses and the sins,

`And he was angry, and would not go in, therefore his father, having come forth, was entreating him;

And he said, `A certain man had two sons, — read the full passage →

`And what think ye? A man had two children, and having come to the first, he said, Child, go, to-day be working in my vineyard.'

And we are as unclean--all of us, And as a garment passing away, all our righteous acts; And we fade as a leaf--all of us. And our iniquities as wind do take us away.

A man loving wisdom rejoiceth his father, And a friend of harlots destroyeth wealth.

Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.

And the king turneth aside his signet from off his hand, and giveth it to Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, adversary of the Jews;

`When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious--he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them--

and the sow, though it is dividing the hoof, and cleaving the cleft of the hoof, yet the cud it bringeth not up--unclean it <FI>is<Fi> to you.

Brethren, if any among you may go astray from the truth, and any one may turn him back, — read the full passage →

in whom also ye were 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 the Christ, — read the full passage →

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind, — read the full passage →

And concerning the virgins, a command of the Lord I have not; and I give judgment as having obtained kindness from the Lord to be faithful: — read the full passage →

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

so, then--not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness:

and there came a great weeping to all, and having fallen upon the neck of Paul, they were kissing him,

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — read the full passage →

And he said also unto his disciples, `A certain man was rich, who had a steward, and he was accused to him as scattering his goods; — read the full passage →

and he said to him--Thy brother is arrived, and thy father did kill the fatted calf, because in health he did receive him back.

and having called near one of the young men, he was inquiring what these things might be,

`And having risen, he went unto his own father, and he being yet far distant, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and having ran he fell upon his neck and kissed him; — read the full passage →