Isaiah 1:3
3The ox aknows its owner,and the donkey its master’s crib,
but Israel does bnot know,
my people do not understand.”
Jeremiah 35:14
14The command that Jonadab the son of Rechab gave to his sons, to drink no wine, has been kept, and they drink none to this day, for they have obeyed their father’s command. I have spoken to you cpersistently, but you have not listened to me.Malachi 1:6
The Priests’ Polluted Offerings
6 d“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am ea father, where is my honor? And if I am fa master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. gBut you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’Matthew 11:28-30
28 hCome to ime, all who labor and are jheavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29Take my yoke upon you, and klearn from me, for I am lgentle and lowly in heart, and myou will find rest for your souls. 30For nmy yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”Luke 15:11-13
The Parable of the Prodigal Son
11And he said, “There was a man who had two sons. 12And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me othe share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided phis property between them. 13Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in qreckless living.Luke 15:28-30
28But he was angry and refused to go in. His father came out and entreated him, 29but he answered his father, ‘Look, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command, yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might rcelebrate with my friends. 30But when this son of yours came, swho has devoured tyour property with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’
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