Bible Verses About Parables

and no more am I worthy to be called thy son; make me as one of thy hirelings.

`And having risen, he went unto his own father, and he being yet far distant, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and having ran he fell upon his neck and kissed him;

and the son said to him, Father, I did sin--to the heaven, and before thee, and no more am I worthy to be called thy son.

`And the father said unto his servants, Bring forth the first robe, and clothe him, and give a ring for his hand, and sandals for the feet;

and having brought the fatted calf, kill it , and having eaten, we may be merry,

because this my son was dead, and did live again, and he was lost, and was found; and they began to be merry.

`And his elder son was in a field, and as, coming, he drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing,

and having called near one of the young men, he was inquiring what these things might be,

and he said to him--Thy brother is arrived, and thy father did kill the fatted calf, because in health he did receive him back.

`And he was angry, and would not go in, therefore his father, having come forth, was entreating him;

and he answering said to the father, Lo, so many years I do serve thee, and never thy command did I transgress, and to me thou didst never give a kid, that with my friends I might make merry;

but when thy son--this one who did devour thy living with harlots--came, thou didst kill to him the fatted calf.

`And he said to him, Child, thou art always with me, and all my things are thine;

but to be merry, and to be glad, it was needful, because this thy brother was dead, and did live again, he was lost, and was found.'

And he said also unto his disciples, `A certain man was rich, who had a steward, and he was accused to him as scattering his goods;

and having called him, he said to him, What is this I hear about thee? render the account of thy stewardship, for thou mayest not any longer be steward.

`And the steward said in himself, What shall I do, because my lord doth take away the stewardship from me? to dig I am not able, to beg I am ashamed: --

I have known what I shall do, that, when I may be removed from the stewardship, they may receive me to their houses.

`And having called near each one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first, How much dost thou owe to my lord?

and he said, A hundred baths of oil; and he said to him, Take thy bill, and having sat down write fifty.

`Afterward to another he said, And thou, how much dost thou owe? and he said, A hundred cors of wheat; and he saith to him, Take thy bill, and write eighty.

`And the lord commended the unrighteous steward that he did prudently, because the sons of this age are more prudent than the sons of the light, in respect to their generation.

`And--a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day,

and there was a certain poor man, by name Lazarus, who was laid at his porch, full of sores,

and desiring to be filled from the crumbs that are falling from the table of the rich man; yea, also the dogs, coming, were licking his sores.