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 Yahweh.
• 1 Jn 1:8–10If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
• Luke 15:21The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
• Jer 50:4–5“In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping, and will seek Yahweh their God.
• Luke 18:13But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
• Ps 51:3–5For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.
• Matt 6:14“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
• Ps 32:3–5When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
• Hos 2:6–7Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.
• Ps 25:11For your name’s sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.
• Jer 3:19“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’
• Job 33:27–28He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.
• 2 Chr 33:12–13When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
• Matt 3:6They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.
• Isa 63:16For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.
• 2 Chr 33:19His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.
• Matt 6:9Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
• Prov 23:13Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.
• Jer 31:20Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.
• Jer 31:6–9For there will be a day that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim cry, ‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.’”
• 2 Kgs 7:3–4Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said to one another, “Why do we sit here until we die?
• Hos 14:1–3Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.
• Job 36:8–10If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,
• Ps 116:3–7The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
• Lev 26:40–41“‘If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,
• Jonah 3:9Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?”
• 1 Kgs 8:47–48yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;’
• Matt 7:11If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
• 1 Kgs 20:30–31But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben Hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner room.
• Lam 3:18–22I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”
• Jonah 2:4I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’
• Dan 4:26Whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; your kingdom shall be sure to you, after that you shall have known that the heavens do rule.
• Luke 11:2He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
• Lam 3:29Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

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