Luke 15:19
17 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.
I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.”’
20 So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still in the distance, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.
21 The son declared, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.”’
- KJV
- And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
- WEB
- I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants.”’
- ASV
- I am no more worthy to be called your son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
- DARBY
- I am no longer worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
- BLB
- no longer am I worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired men.”’
- ÅB
- jeg er ikke verdig lenger til å kalles din sønn; la meg få være som en av dine leiefolk!
- OTB
- Jeg er ikke lenger verdig til å kalles din sønn; behandle meg som en av dine leide tjenere.’
- B1930
- jeg er ikke verdig lenger til å kalles din sønn; la mig få være som en av dine leiefolk!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 42:6
Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
Read in contextPsalms 84:10
For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
Read in context1 Peter 5:6
Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, so that in due time He may exalt you.
Read in contextJames 4:8–10
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Read in contextJoshua 9:24–25
The Gibeonites answered, “Your servants were told clearly that the LORD your God had commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land and wipe out all its inhabitants before you. So we greatly feared for our lives because of you, and that is why we have done this.
Read in contextGenesis 32:10
I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, with only my staff I came across the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.
Read in contextLuke 5:8
When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees. “Go away from me, Lord,” he said, “for I am a sinful man.”
Read in context1 Corinthians 15:9
For I am the least of the apostles and am unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
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