Luke 15:29 Cross References - Etheridge

²⁹ But he said to his father, Behold, how many years have I wrought thee service, and never have I transgressed thy commandment: yet never hast thou given me a kid, that I might feast with my friends.

¹² and said, These last have wrought one hour, and thou hast made them equal with us, who have borne the burden of the day and its heat.

⁷ I say to you, that thus shall there be joy in heaven over one sinner who repenteth, more than over the ninety and nine just ones who have no need of repentance.

¹⁰ Thus also you, when you have done all those things which are required of you, have said, We are unprofitable servants, because what we were obligated to do, (that) have we done.

⁹ And he spake this parable against some who trusted in themselves that they were just, and despised all (men):

¹¹ and, behold, the Pharisha stood (and) within himself these words prayed: Aloha, I thank thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious and unjust, and adulterers; nor as this publican. ¹² But I fast twice in the week, and tithe whatever I possess.

²⁰ The commandments thou knowest, Thou shalt not kill, and, Thou shalt not commit adultery, and, Thou shalt not steal, and, Thou shalt not witness false testimony, Honour thy father and thy mother. ²¹ He saith to him, These all have I kept from my childhood.

²¹ For I feared thee, because thou art a hard man, taking up what thou hadst not laid down, and reaping what thou sowedst not.

²⁰ Because by the works of the law no flesh is justified before him; for from the law sin is known.

²⁷ Where, then, is boasting? It is abolished. By what law? of works? No, but by the law of faith.

⁹ But I was alive without the law formerly: but when the commandment came, sin lived, and I died.

³ But the righteousness of Aloha they know not, but seek the righteousness of themselves to establish, and on this account to the righteousness of Aloha they have not become subject.

⁴ Yet I may have confidence on the flesh. For if any one consider that his confidence is in the flesh, I [have] more than he. ⁵ Circumcised the son of eight days, of the family of Israel, of the tribe of Benyomin, Ebroia of Ebroyee; in the law, Pharisha; ⁶ in zeal, a persecutor of the church; and in the righteousness of the law, without fault have I been.

⁸ And if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us; ⁹ but if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ¹⁰ And if we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

¹⁷ He who hath ears, let him hear what saith the Spirit to the churches. To him who overcometh will I give to eat of the manna which is hidden; and I will give to him the white stone,* and upon the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth but he who receiveth. [* Chushbono, rationale. Query, a breastplate?]

¹⁷ Because thou sayest, I am rich, and have become opulent, and of nothing have need; and knowest not that thou art infirm, and miserable, and needy, and blind, and naked;