Luke 15:29 Cross References

Luke 15:29

29: but he replied, 'All these years I've worked hard for you and never once refused to do a single thing you told me to. And in all that time you never gave me even one young goat for a feast with my friends.

Luke 18:11

  1. The proud Pharisee stood by himself and prayed this prayer: 'I thank you, God, that I am not a sinner like everyone else, especially like that tax collector over there! For I never cheat, I don't sin, I don't commit adultery,
  2. I fast twice a week, and I give you a tenth of my income.'

Luke 19:21

  1. I was afraid because you are a hard man to deal with, taking what isn't yours and harvesting crops you didn't plant.'

1 John 1:8

  1. If we say we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and refusing to accept the truth.
  2. But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us from every wrong.
  3. If we claim we have not sinned, we are calling God a liar and showing that his word has no place in our hearts.

Revelation 2:17

  1. "Anyone who is willing to hear should listen to the Spirit and understand what the Spirit is saying to the churches. Everyone who is victorious will eat of the manna that has been hidden away in heaven. And I will give to each one a white stone, and on the stone will be engraved a new name that no one knows except the one who receives it.

Zechariah 7:3

  1. They were to ask this question of the prophets and of the priests at the Temple of the LORD Almighty: "Should we continue to mourn and fast each summer on the anniversary of the Temple's destruction, as we have done for so many years?"

Luke 17:10

  1. In the same way, when you obey me you should say, 'We are not worthy of praise. We are servants who have simply done our duty.'"

Romans 10:3

  1. For they don't understand God's way of making people right with himself. Instead, they are clinging to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law. They won't go along with God's way.

Romans 3:27

  1. Can we boast, then, that we have done anything to be accepted by God? No, because our acquittal is not based on our good deeds. It is based on our faith.

Romans 7:9

  1. I felt fine when I did not understand what the law demanded. But when I learned the truth, I realized I had broken the law and was a sinner, doomed to die.

Isaiah 65:5

  1. Yet they say to each other, `Don't come too close or you will defile me! I am holier than you!' They are a stench in my nostrils, an acrid smell that never goes away.

Luke 18:9

  1. Then Jesus told this story to some who had great self-confidence and scorned everyone else:

Malachi 3:14

  1. "You have said, `What's the use of serving God? What have we gained by obeying his commands or by trying to show the LORD Almighty that we are sorry for our sins?

Malachi 1:12

  1. "But you dishonor my name with your actions. By bringing contemptible food, you are saying it's all right to defile the Lord's table.
  2. You say, `It's too hard to serve the LORD,' and you turn up your noses at his commands," says the LORD Almighty. "Think of it! Animals that are stolen and mutilated, crippled and sick--presented as offerings! Should I accept from you such offerings as these?" asks the LORD.

Luke 15:7

  1. In the same way, heaven will be happier over one lost sinner who returns to God than over ninety-nine others who are righteous and haven't strayed away!

Isaiah 58:2

  1. Yet they act so pious! They come to the Temple every day and seem delighted to hear my laws. You would almost think this was a righteous nation that would never abandon its God. They love to make a show of coming to me and asking me to take action on their behalf.
  2. `We have fasted before you!' they say. `Why aren't you impressed? We have done much penance, and you don't even notice it!'"I will tell you why! It's because you are living for yourselves even while you are fasting. You keep right on oppressing your workers.

Revelation 3:17

  1. You say, 'I am rich. I have everything I want. I don't need a thing!' And you don't realize that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.

Luke 18:20

  1. But as for your question, you know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery. Do not murder. Do not steal. Do not testify falsely. Honor your father and mother.'"
  2. The man replied, "I've obeyed all these commandments since I was a child."

Philippians 3:4

  1. Yet I could have confidence in myself if anyone could. If others have reason for confidence in their own efforts, I have even more!
  2. For I was circumcised when I was eight days old, having been born into a pure-blooded Jewish family that is a branch of the tribe of Benjamin. So I am a real Jew if there ever was one! What's more, I was a member of the Pharisees, who demand the strictest obedience to the Jewish law.
  3. And zealous? Yes, in fact, I harshly persecuted the church. And I obeyed the Jewish law so carefully that I was never accused of any fault.

Matthew 20:12

  1. 'Those people worked only one hour, and yet you've paid them just as much as you paid us who worked all day in the scorching heat.'

1 Samuel 15:13

  1. When Samuel finally found him, Saul greeted him cheerfully. "May the LORD bless you," he said. "I have carried out the LORD's command!"
  2. "Then what is all the bleating of sheep and lowing of cattle I hear?" Samuel demanded.

Romans 3:20

  1. For no one can ever be made right in God's sight by doing what his law commands. For the more we know God's law, the clearer it becomes that we aren't obeying it.
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