Luke 15:17
“And when he came to himselfe, he said, How many hired seruants of my fathers haue bread inough and to spare, and I perish with hunger?”
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Luke 15:17 Context
15And he went and ioyned himselfe to a citizen of that countrey, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. 16And he would faine haue filled his belly with the huskes that the swine did eate: & no man gaue vnto him. 17And when he came to himselfe, he said, How many hired seruants of my fathers haue bread inough and to spare, and I perish with hunger? 18I will arise and goe to my father, and will say vnto him, Father, I haue sinned against heauen and before thee. 19And am no more worthy to be called thy sonne: make me as one of thy hired seruants.
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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!
- King James Version
"But when he came to his senses, he said, 'How many of my father's hired men have more than enough bread, but I am dying here with hunger!
- New American Standard Version (1995)