Luke 15:19

19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.’

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Luke 15:19 in Other Translations

KJV

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

ESV

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

NLT

19 and I am no longer worthy of being called your son. Please take me on as a hired servant.”’

MSG

19 I don't deserve to be called your son. Take me on as a hired hand.'

CSB

19 I'm no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired hands.'

Luke 15:19 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 15:19

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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Luke 15:19 In-Context

17 “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death!

18 I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.

19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.’

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.

21 “The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’