Luke 15:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

Luke 15:18 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lamentations 3:40
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
1 John 1:8-10
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. …
Luke 15:21
And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
Luke 18:13
And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
Psalms 51:3-5
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-32)

We have here the parable of the prodigal son, the scope of which is the same with those before, to show how pleasing to God the conversion of sinners is, of great sinners, and how ready he is to receive and entertain such, upon their repentance; but the circumstances of the parable do much more largely and fully set forth the riches of gospel grace than those did, and it has been, and will be whil…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

18. I will arise and go to my FATHER--The change has come at last, and what a change!--couched in terms of such exquisite simplicity and power as if expressly framed for all heart-broken penitents. Father, &c.--Mark the term. Though “no more worthy to be called his son,” the prodigal sinner is taught to claim the defiled, but still existing relationship, asking not to be made a servant, but remain…