Luke 15:19
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New International Version (©2011)
I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.'

New Living Translation (©2007)
and I am no longer worthy of being called your son. Please take me on as a hired servant."'

English Standard Version (©2001)
I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired servants.”’

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

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
I'm no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired hands.'

International Standard Version (©2012)
I don't deserve to be called your son anymore. Treat me like one of your hired men."'

NET Bible (©2006)
I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired workers."'

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
“Now I am not worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants.”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
I don't deserve to be called your son anymore. Make me one of your hired men."'

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And am no more worthy to be called your son: make me as one of your hired servants.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

World English Bible
I am no more 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.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

15:17-24 Having viewed the prodigal in his abject state of misery, we are next to consider his recovery from it. This begins by his coming to himself. That is a turning point in the sinner's conversion. The Lord opens his eyes, and convinces him of sin; then he views himself and every object, in a different light from what he did before. Thus the convinced sinner perceives that the meanest servant of God is happier than he is. To look unto God as a Father, and our Father, will be of great use in our repentance and return to him. The prodigal arose, nor stopped till he reached his home. Thus the repenting sinner resolutely quits the bondage of Satan and his lusts, and returns to God by prayer, notwithstanding fears and discouragements. The Lord meets him with unexpected tokens of his forgiving love. Again; the reception of the humbled sinner is like that of the prodigal. He is clothed in the robe of the Redeemer's righteousness, made partaker of the Spirit of adoption, prepared by peace of conscience and gospel grace to walk in the ways of holiness, and feasted with Divine consolations. Principles of grace and holiness are wrought in him, to do, as well as to will.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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.

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The Parable of the Prodigal Son
…18I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before you, 19And am no more worthy to be called your son: make me as one of your hired servants. 20And 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. …

Luke 15:18 I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
Luke 15:20 So he got up and went to his father. "But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.