Devine Scripture

Luke 15:17

Luke chapter 15 · verse 17 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger!

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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!

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger!

Context

v.16And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

v.17This passage

v.18I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight:

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Acts 26:11

    And punishing them oftentimes in all the synagogues, I strove to make them blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto foreign cities.

  • Acts 16:29

    And he called for lights and sprang in, and, trembling for fear, fell down before Paul and Silas,

  • Ephesians 2:4

    but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

  • Ecclesiastes 9:3

    This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

  • Acts 2:37

    Now when they heardthis, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and the rest of the apostles, Brethren, what shall we do?

  • Titus 3:4

    But when the kindness of God our Saviour, and his love toward man, appeared,