Luke 15:29-31

International Standard Version

²⁹ But he answered his father, ‘Listen! All these years I’ve worked like a slave for you. I’ve never disobeyed a command of yours. Yet you’ve never given me so much as a young goat for a festival^[a] so I could celebrate with my friends. ³⁰ But this son of yours spent your money on prostitutes, and when he came back, you killed the fattened calf for him!’

³¹ “His father^[b] told him, ‘My child, you are always with me, and everything I have is yours.