Luke 15:29

The elder son boasts of years of obedience yet complains he was never given even a goat to celebrate.

Cross-references · 21

• Zech 7:3by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”
• Luke 15:7In the same way, I tell you that there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous ones who do not need to repent.
• Luke 18:11–12The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like the other men—swindlers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.
• Mal 3:14You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?
• Luke 18:9To some who trusted in their own righteousness and viewed others with contempt, He also told this parable:
• 1 Sam 15:13–14When Samuel reached him, Saul said to him, “May the LORD bless you. I have carried out the LORD’s instructions.”
• Rev 2:17He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will give the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, known only to the one who receives it.
• Mal 1:12–13“But you profane it when you say, ‘The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is contemptible.’
• Luke 17:10So you also, when you have done everything commanded of you, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”
• Isa 65:5They say, ‘Keep to yourself; do not come near me, for I am holier than you!’ Such people are smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all day long.
• 1 Jn 1:8–10If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
• Luke 18:20–21You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honor your father and mother.’”
• Phil 3:4–6though I myself could have such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more:
• Rom 7:9Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
• Rev 3:17You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.
• Luke 19:21For I was afraid of you, because you are a harsh man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’
• Matt 20:12‘These men who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the scorching heat of the day.’
• Isa 58:2–3For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”
• Rom 3:27Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.
• Rom 3:20Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
• Rom 10:3Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

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