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Read Full Chapter (Luke 15) Luke 15:17 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!"
Luke Chapter 15, Verse 17
Luke 15:17 in Context (Verses 14–20 KJV)
14
And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
15
And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
16
And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
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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!
18
I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
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And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
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And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.