Luke 15:19

Easy-to-Read Version

I am no longer worthy to be called your son. But let me be like one of your hired workers.'

Parallel Translations

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and am no moare worthy to be called thy sonne make me as one of thy hyred servauntes.

Hebrew Names Version
I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants."'

International Standard Version
I don't deserve to be called your son anymore. Treat me like one of your hired men."'

New American Standard Bible
I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me as one of your hired laborers."'

New Century Version
I am no longer worthy to be called your son, but let me be like one of your servants."'

Update Bible Version
I am no more worthy to be called your son: make me as one of your hired workers.

Webster's Bible Translation
And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

Amplified Bible
"I am no longer worthy to be called your son; [just] treat me like one of your hired men."'

English Standard Version
I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired servants."'

World English Bible
I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants."'

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
I am no more worthy to be called thy son; make me as one of thy hired servants.

Weymouth's New Testament
I no longer deserve to be called a son of yours: treat me as one of your hired men.'

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and now Y am not worthi to be clepid thi sone, make me as oon of thin hirid men.

English Revised Version
I am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

Berean Standard Bible
I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants."'

Contemporary English Version
I am no longer good enough to be called your son. Treat me like one of your workers.'"

American Standard Version
I am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

Bible in Basic English
I am no longer good enough to be named your son: make me like one of your servants.

Complete Jewish Bible
I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired workers." '

Darby Translation
I am no longer worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

Etheridge Translation
and am no more worthy thy son to be called: make me as one of thy hirelings.

Murdock Translation
and am no longer worthy to be called thy son. Make me like one of thy hired servants.

King James Version (1611)
And am no more worthy to be called thy sonne: make me as one of thy hired seruants.

New Living Translation
and I am no longer worthy of being called your son. Please take me on as a hired servant."'

New Life Bible
I am not good enough to be called your son. But may I be as one of the workmen you pay to work?"'

New Revised Standard
I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired hands."'

Geneva Bible (1587)
And am no more worthy to be called thy sonne: make me as one of thy hired seruants.

George Lamsa Translation
And I am no longer worthy to be called your son; just make me like one of your hired workers.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
No longer, am I worthy to be called a son of thine, - Make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose, and came unto his own father.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I am not worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

Revised Standard Version
I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me as one of your hired servants."'

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And am no more worthy to be called thy sonne, make me as one of thy hyred seruauntes.

Good News Translation
I am no longer fit to be called your son; treat me as one of your hired workers."'

Christian Standard Bible®
I’m no longer worthy

King James Version
And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

Lexham English Bible
I am no longer worthy to be called your son! Make me like one of your hired workers.'

Literal Translation
and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants.

Young's Literal Translation
and no more am I worthy to be called thy son; make me as one of thy hirelings.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and am nomore worthy to be called thy sonne, make me as one of thy hyred seruauntes.

Mace New Testament (1729)
I am no longer worthy to be called your son: treat me as one of your hir'd servants.

New English Translation
I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired workers."'

New King James Version
and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants."'

Simplified Cowboy Version
I'm not worthy to be called your son, but would you hire me on as a worker?'

New American Standard Bible (1995)
I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me as one of your hired men."'

Legacy Standard Bible
I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me as one of your hired men."'

Contextual Overview

¹¹ Then Jesus said, "There was a man who had two sons. ¹² The younger son said to his father, ‘Give me now the part of your property that I am supposed to receive someday.' So the father divided his wealth between his two sons. ¹³ "A few days later the younger son gathered up all that he had and left. He traveled far away to another country, and there he wasted his money living like a fool. ¹⁴ After he spent everything he had, there was a terrible famine throughout the country. He was hungry and needed money. ¹⁵ So he went and got a job with one of the people who lived there. The man sent him into the fields to feed pigs. ¹⁶ He was so hungry that he wanted to eat the food the pigs were eating. But no one gave him anything. ¹⁷ "The son realized that he had been very foolish. He thought, ‘All my father's hired workers have plenty of food. But here I am, almost dead because I have nothing to eat. ¹⁸ I will leave and go to my father. I will say to him: Father, I have sinned against God and have done wrong to you. ¹⁹ I am no longer worthy to be called your son. But let me be like one of your hired workers.' ²⁰ So he left and went to his father. "While the son was still a long way off, his father saw him coming and felt sorry for him. So he ran to him and hugged and kissed him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

no: Luke 5:8, Luke 7:6, Luke 7:7, Genesis 32:10, Job 42:6, 1 Corinthians 15:9, 1 Timothy 1:13-16

make: Joshua 9:24, Joshua 9:25, Psalms 84:10, Matthew 15:26, Matthew 15:27, James 4:8-10, 1 Peter 5:6

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:40 - confess 1 Chronicles 21:8 - I have sinned 2 Chronicles 6:37 - We have sinned Job 40:4 - Behold Lamentations 1:20 - for Lamentations 3:29 - if Lamentations 3:42 - transgressed Daniel 9:15 - we have sinned Micah 7:9 - bear Matthew 8:8 - I am Luke 15:17 - How Luke 15:21 - Father Luke 23:41 - we indeed

Cross-References

Genesis 15:21
Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And am no more worthy to be called thy son,.... As all the Jews were; not only by creation, and providential care, as all men are; but by national adoption: and however worthy this man might think himself to be called a Son of God before, and value himself upon it; he now sees, and was ready to own his unworthiness to be called so in any sense; and much more to be called and accounted a Son of God by special adoption;

make me as one of thy hired servants; this is said not from a servile spirit, but to express the mean thoughts he had of himself, and the great desire he had to be fed from his father's table, in the meanest way; and what an happiness and honour it would be to him, could he be the meanest in his family, a doorkeeper in his house; which was more eligible to him, than to dwell in the tents of sin, or continue in this hungry and starving condition.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

No more worthy ... - “Such has been my conduct that I have been a disgrace to my father. I am not fit to be honored by being called the son of a man so kind and virtuous.”

Make me as one ... - “Treat me as a servant. Let me come again into your family, but I do not ask to be treated as a son. I am willing to come in if you will give me only the support that you give to a servant.” This evinced,

1. Deep humility - such as a sinner should have.
2. Love for his father’s house - such as all penitents should have toward God’s dwelling-place in heaven.
3. Confidence in his father that he would treat him kindly, even if he treated him as a servant. Such confidence all returning penitents feel in God. They are assured that God will treat them kindly that whatever he gives them will be more than they deserve, and they are, therefore, willing to be in his hands. Yet,
4. He had no adequate sense of his father’s kindness. He did not fully appreciate his character. He was far more kind than he had dared to hope he would be; just as all sinners undervalue the character of God, and find him always more kind than they had supposed. No sinner comes to God with a just and adequate view of his character, but “always” finds him more merciful than he had dared to hope.