The 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 →

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

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

He said, “A certain man had two sons.

“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.

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!

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.’

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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,

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 →

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

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

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?

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.

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

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 →

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

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

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

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 →

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

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

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

“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?

for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on.”

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

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

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

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

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

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

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

“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. — read the full passage →

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

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

He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, “Take the filthy garments off of him.” To him he said, “Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with rich clothing.”

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

yet if they shall repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;’

among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

‘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.’

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 →

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 →

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.

You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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!’

When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

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

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

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

who testified to God’s word, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.

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

saying, “There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God, and didn’t respect man.

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 told them this parable.

“When you are invited by anyone to a marriage feast, don’t sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you might be invited by him,

Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him.

Then he said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.

When you did awesome things which we didn’t look for, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.

The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

So Joab came to the king, and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom.

The woman had a fattened calf in the house. She hurried and killed it; and she took flour, and kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread of it.

Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.