Luke 15:18

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

Cross References (34)

  • Lamentations 3:40 (16)

    Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.

  • 1 John 1:8–10 (13)

    If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

  • Luke 15:21 (12)

    The son declared, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

  • Luke 18:13 (10)

    But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and

  • Psalms 51:3–5 (9)

    For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.

  • Jeremiah 50:4–5 (8)

    “In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, the children of Israel and the children of Judah will come together,

  • Matthew 6:14 (8)

    For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

  • Psalms 32:3–5 (6)

    When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.

  • Hosea 2:6–7 (6)

    Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.

  • Jeremiah 3:19 (5)

    Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the na

  • Psalms 25:11 (5)

    For the sake of Your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, for it is great.

  • Job 33:27–28 (4)

    Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserve

  • Matthew 6:9 (4)

    So then, this is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.

  • Proverbs 23:13 (4)

    Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die.

  • Jeremiah 31:20 (4)

    Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefo

  • Isaiah 63:16 (4)

    Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father;

  • Matthew 3:6 (4)

    Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.

  • Jonah 3:9 (3)

    Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”

  • Psalms 116:3–7 (3)

    The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.

  • 1 Kings 20:30–31 (3)

    The rest of them fled into the city of Aphek, where the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of the remaining men. Ben-had

  • 1 Kings 8:47–48 (3)

    and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land

  • Matthew 7:11 (3)

    So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good

  • 2 Kings 7:3–4 (3)

    Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate, and they said to one another, “Why just sit here

  • Jeremiah 31:6–9 (3)

    For there will be a day when watchmen will call out on the hills of Ephraim, ‘Arise, let us go up to Zion, to the LORD o

  • Job 36:8–10 (3)

    And if men are bound with chains, caught in cords of affliction,

  • Hosea 14:1–3 (3)

    Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.

  • 2 Chronicles 33:19 (3)

    His prayer and how God received his plea, as well as all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high p

  • Leviticus 26:40–41 (3)

    But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me,

  • 2 Chronicles 33:12–13 (3)

    And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his f

  • Jonah 2:4 (2)

    At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’

  • Daniel 4:26 (2)

    As for the command to leave the stump of the tree with its roots, your kingdom will be restored to you as soon as you ac

  • Lamentations 3:29 (2)

    Let him bury his face in the dust—perhaps there is still hope.

  • Luke 11:2 (2)

    So Jesus told them, “When you pray, say: ‘Father, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come.

  • Lamentations 3:18–22 (2)

    So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”