Luke 15:17

American Standard Version

But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger!

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Luke 15:17 in other translations

But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!

Luke 15:17 · World English Bible

Luke 15:17 in context

  1. 15And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
  2. 16And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
  3. 17But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger!
  4. 18I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight:
  5. 19I am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.