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 search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
• 1 Jn 1:8–10If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
• Luke 15:21And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
• Jer 50:4–5In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
• Luke 18:13And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
• Ps 51:3–5For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
• Matt 6:14For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
• Ps 32:3–5When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
• Hos 2:6–7Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
• Ps 25:11For thy name’s sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.
• Jer 3:19But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
• Job 33:27–28He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
• 2 Chr 33:12–13And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
• Matt 3:6And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
• Isa 63:16Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
• 2 Chr 33:19His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sins, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.
• Matt 6:9After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
• Prov 23:13Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
• Jer 31:20Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.
• Jer 31:6–9For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God.
• 2 Kgs 7:3–4And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
• Hos 14:1–3O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
• Job 36:8–10And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
• Ps 116:3–7The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
• Lev 26:40–41If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
• Jonah 3:9Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
• 1 Kgs 8:47–48Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;
• Matt 7:11If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
• 1 Kgs 20:30–31But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
• Lam 3:18–22And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
• Jonah 2:4Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
• Dan 4:26And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots; thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule.
• Luke 11:2And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.
• Lam 3:29He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

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