Luke 15:18
New International Version
I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.

New Living Translation
I will go home to my father and say, “Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you,

English Standard Version
I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.

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

Berean Literal Bible
Having risen up, I will go to my father, and I will say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you;

King James Bible
I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

New King James Version
I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you,

New American Standard Bible
I will set out and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight;

NASB 1995
‘I will get up and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight;

NASB 1977
‘I will get up and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight;

Legacy Standard Bible
I will rise up and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before you.

Amplified Bible
I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight.

Christian Standard Bible
I’ll get up, go to my father, and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I’ll get up, go to my father, and say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight.

American Standard Version
I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
'I shall arise and go to my father and say to him, “My father, I have sinned toward Heaven, and before you.'

Contemporary English Version
I will go to my father and say to him, 'Father, I have sinned against God in heaven and against you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will arise, and will go to my father, and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee:

English Revised Version
I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I'll go at once to my father, and I'll say to him, "Father, I've sinned against heaven and you.

Good News Translation
I will get up and go to my father and say, "Father, I have sinned against God and against you.

International Standard Version
I will get up, go to my father, and say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and you.

Literal Standard Version
Having risen, I will go on to my father, and will say to him, Father, I sinned—to Heaven, and before you,

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

New American Bible
I shall get up and go to my father and I shall say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.

NET Bible
I will get up and go to my father and say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.

New Revised Standard Version
I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you;

New Heart English Bible
I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.

Webster's Bible Translation
I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

Weymouth New Testament
I will rise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before you:

World English Bible
I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight.

Young's Literal Translation
having risen, I will go on unto my father, and will say to him, Father, I did sin -- to the heaven, and before thee,

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Context
The Parable of the Prodigal Son
17Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food? But here I am, starving to death! 18I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. 19I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.” ’…

Cross References
Hosea 2:7
She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say, 'I will return to my first husband, for then I was better off than now.'

Luke 15:17
Finally he came to his senses and said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have plenty of food? But here I am, starving to death!

Luke 15:19
I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants."'


Treasury of Scripture

I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before you,

will arise.

1 Kings 20:30,31
But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber…

2 Kings 7:3,4
And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die? …

2 Chronicles 33:12,13,19
And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, …

Father.

Luke 11:2
And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.

Isaiah 63:16
Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.

Jeremiah 3:19
But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.

I have.

Luke 18:13
And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.

Leviticus 26:40,41
If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me; …

1 Kings 8:47,48
Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness; …

against.

Luke 15:21
And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.

Daniel 4:26
And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots; thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule.

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Luke 15
1. The parable of the lost sheep;
8. of the piece of silver;
11. of the prodigal son.














(18) I will arise and go to my father.--This, then, was the firstfruits of repentance. He remembers that he has a father, and trusts in that father's love; but he dares not claim the old position which he had so recklessly cast away. He is content to be as one of the "hired servants." Spiritually, the first impulse of the contrite heart is to take the lowest place, to wish for the drudgery of daily duties, or even menial service, if only it may be near its Father in heaven, and by slow degrees regain His favour and earn the wages of His praise.

I have sinned . . .--More strictly, I sinned, as going back in thought to the first act of sin as virtually including all that grew out of it.

Verses 18, 19. - I will arise and go to my father... make me as one of thy hired servants. The repentance of the prodigal was real. It was no mere sentimental regret, no momentary flash of sorrow for a bad past. There was before him a long and weary journey to be undertaken, and he - brought up in luxury - had to face it without means. There was the shame of confession before dependents and relatives and friends, and, as the crown of all, there was the position of a servant to be filled in the home where once he had been a son, for that was all he hoped to gain even from his father's pitying love.

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Greek
I will get up
ἀναστὰς (anastas)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 450: To raise up, set up; I rise from among (the) dead; I arise, appear. From ana and histemi; to stand up.

[and] go back
πορεύσομαι (poreusomai)
Verb - Future Indicative Middle - 1st Person Singular
Strong's 4198: To travel, journey, go, die.

to
πρὸς (pros)
Preposition
Strong's 4314: To, towards, with. A strengthened form of pro; a preposition of direction; forward to, i.e. Toward.

my
μου (mou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

father
πατέρα (patera)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3962: Father, (Heavenly) Father, ancestor, elder, senior. Apparently a primary word; a 'father'.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

say
ἐρῶ (erō)
Verb - Future Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's 2046: Probably a fuller form of rheo; an alternate for epo in certain tenses; to utter, i.e. Speak or say.

to him,
αὐτῷ (autō)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

“Father,
Πάτερ (Pater)
Noun - Vocative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3962: Father, (Heavenly) Father, ancestor, elder, senior. Apparently a primary word; a 'father'.

I have sinned
ἥμαρτον (hēmarton)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's 264: Perhaps from a and the base of meros; properly, to miss the mark, i.e. to err, especially to sin.

against
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

heaven
οὐρανὸν (ouranon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3772: Perhaps from the same as oros; the sky; by extension, heaven; by implication, happiness, power, eternity; specially, the Gospel.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

against
ἐνώπιόν (enōpion)
Preposition
Strong's 1799: Neuter of a compound of en and a derivative of optanomai; in the face of.

you.
σου (sou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.


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