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Luke 15:17

RepentanceGuilt and conscience

15 So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.

16 He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.

Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food? But here I am, starving to death!

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

19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.”’

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BSB
Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food? But here I am, starving to death!
KJV
And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
WEB
But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!
ASV
But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father`s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger!
DARBY
And coming to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have abundance of bread, and *I* perish here by famine.
BLB
But having come to himself, he was saying, ‘How many hired men of my father have an abundance of loaves, but here I am perishing with hunger?
ÅB
Men da kom han til seg selv og sa: Hvor mange leiefolk hos min far har fullt opp av brød, men jeg setter livet til her av sult!
OTB
Da han innså sin situasjon, sa han: ‘Hvor mange av min fars leide tjenere har mat i overflod, mens jeg her holder på å sulte i hjel!
B1930
Men da kom han til sig selv og sa: Hvor mange leiefolk hos min far har fullt op av brød, men jeg setter livet til her av sult!

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