Luke 15:19

Luke chapter 15 · verse 19 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

I am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

I am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

Context

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

v.19This passage

v.20And he arose, and came to his father. But while he was yet afar off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

Cross references

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

  • 1 Corinthians 15:9

    For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

  • Psalms 84:10

    For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

  • Matthew 15:26

    And he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread and cast it to the dogs.

  • Joshua 9:24

    And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that Jehovah thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; therefore we were sore afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

  • 1 Peter 5:6

    Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;

  • 1 Timothy 1:13

    though I was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: howbeit I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief;