Luke 15:18

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“I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.”

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BSBPD

“I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight:”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“having risen, I will go on unto my father, and will say to him, Father, I did sin--to the heaven, and before thee,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Luke 15:18 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Leviticus 26:40But 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—
  2. 1 Kings 8:47and 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,’
  3. 1 Kings 20:30The 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.
  4. 2 Kings 7:3Now 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?
  5. 2 Chronicles 33:12And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.
  6. 2 Chronicles 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.
  7. Job 33:27Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.
  8. Job 36:8And if men are bound with chains, caught in cords of affliction,
  9. Psalms 25:11For the sake of Your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, for it is great.
  10. Psalms 32:3When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
  11. Psalms 51:3For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.
  12. Psalms 116:3The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.
  13. Proverbs 23:13Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
  14. Isaiah 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.
  15. Jeremiah 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.
  16. Jeremiah 31:6For 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!’”
  17. Jeremiah 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.
  18. Jeremiah 50:4“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.
  19. Lamentations 3:18So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
  20. Lamentations 3:29Let him bury his face in the dust— perhaps there is still hope.
  21. Lamentations 3:40Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
  22. Daniel 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.
  23. Hosea 2:6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.
  24. Hosea 14:1Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.

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