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New King James Version (NKJV)

Luke 15
¹⁴ But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want.
¹⁵ Then 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 gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything.
¹⁷ But when he came to himself, he said, ’How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
¹⁸ I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you,
¹⁹ and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants." ’
²⁰ And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.
²¹ And the son said to him, ’Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
²² But the father said to his servants, ’Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet.
²³ And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry;
²⁴ for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ And they began to be merry.