Luke 15:19
Good News Translation
I am no longer fit to be called your son; treat me as one of your hired workers."'

New Revised Standard Version
I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired hands.”’

Contemporary English Version
I am no longer good enough to be called your son. Treat me like one of your workers.'"

New American Bible
I no longer deserve to be called your son; treat me as you would treat one of your hired workers.” ’

Douay-Rheims Bible
I am not worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I am not worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

no.

Luke 5:8 Which when Simon Peter saw, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying: Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.

Luke 7:6,7 And Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent his friends to him, saying: Lord, trouble not thyself; for I am not worthy that thou shouldst enter under my roof. . . .

Genesis 32:10 I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies, and of thy truth which thou hast fulfilled to thy servant. With my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I return with two companies.

Job 42:6 Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes.

1 Corinthians 15:9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

1 Timothy 1:13-16 Who before was a blasphemer and a persecutor and contumelious. But I obtained the mercy of God, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. . . .

make.

Joshua 9:24,25 They answered: It was told us, thy servants, that the Lord thy God had promised his servant Moses, to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants thereof. Therefore we feared exceedingly and provided for our lives, compelled by the dread we had of you, and we took this counsel. . . .

Psalm 84:10 For better is one day in thy courts above thousands. I have chosen to be an abject in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners.

Matthew 15:26,27 Who answering, said: It is not good to take the bread of the children, and to cast it to the dogs. . . .

James 4:8-10 Draw nigh to God: and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double minded. . . .

1 Peter 5:6 Be you humbled therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in the time of visitation:

Context
The Parable of the Prodigal Son
18I will arise and will go to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee. 19I am not worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. 20And rising up, he came to his father. And when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion and running to him fell upon his neck and kissed him.…
Cross References
Luke 15:18
I will arise and will go to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee.

Luke 15:20
And rising up, he came to his father. And when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion and running to him fell upon his neck and kissed him.

Luke 15:18
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