Luke 15:18

He resolves to return and confess he has sinned against heaven and his father. Genuine repentance forms a plan to go home.

Cross-references · 34

• Lam 3:40Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
• 1 Jn 1:8–10If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
• Luke 15:21The son declared, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
• Jer 50:4–5“In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, the children of Israel and the children of Judah will come together, weeping as they come, and will seek the LORD their God.
• Luke 18:13But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’
• Ps 51:3–5For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.
• Matt 6:14For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
• Ps 32:3–5When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
• Hos 2:6–7Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.
• Ps 25:11For the sake of Your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, for it is great.
• Jer 3:19Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!’ I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.
• Job 33:27–28Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.
• 2 Chr 33:12–13And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.
• Matt 3:6Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
• Isa 63:16Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.
• 2 Chr 33:19His prayer and how God received his plea, as well as all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself, they are indeed written in the Records of the Seers.
• Matt 6:9So then, this is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.
• Prov 23:13Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
• Jer 31:20Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the LORD.
• Jer 31:6–9For there will be a day when watchmen will call out on the hills of Ephraim, ‘Arise, let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God!’”
• 2 Kgs 7:3–4Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate, and they said to one another, “Why just sit here until we die?
• Hos 14:1–3Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
• Job 36:8–10And if men are bound with chains, caught in cords of affliction,
• Ps 116:3–7The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.
• Lev 26:40–41But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—
• Jonah 3:9Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”
• 1 Kgs 8:47–48and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’
• Matt 7:11So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
• 1 Kgs 20:30–31The rest of them fled into the city of Aphek, where the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of the remaining men. Ben-hadad also fled to the city and hid in an inner room.
• Lam 3:18–22So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
• Jonah 2:4At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’
• Dan 4:26As for the command to leave the stump of the tree with its roots, your kingdom will be restored to you as soon as you acknowledge that Heaven rules.
• Luke 11:2So Jesus told them, “When you pray, say: ‘Father, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come.
• Lam 3:29Let him bury his face in the dust—perhaps there is still hope.

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