Luke 15:19

King James Version

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

Parallel Translations

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

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

Christian Standard Bible®
I’m no longer worthy

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."'

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

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

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

American Standard 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.'"

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

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.

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

English Revised Version
I 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.

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

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."'

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.

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

Good News Translation
I am no longer fit to be called your son; treat 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 And he said, A certain man had two sons: ¹² And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. ¹³ And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. ¹⁴ And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. ¹⁵ And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. ¹⁶ And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. ¹⁷ 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! ¹⁸ I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, ¹⁹ And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. ²⁰ And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, 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
And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the 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.