Luke 15:18-19

I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.”’

Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Luke 15 · Words of Christ are set in red.

6 songs meet this passage

  • Jesus, Take the Wheel · Carrie Underwood

    resonates with Luke 15:18-19

    Her prayer echoes the prodigal's posture of humility and confession before a willing father.

  • Kill Yourself V · $uicideboy$

    resonates with Luke 15:17-20

    The ache for a father figure and admission of being lost echoes the prodigal's longing to return home, though here it remains unresolved.

  • “Oh, won't you please take me home?”

    Paradise City · Guns N' Roses

    resonates with Luke 15:17-20

    The repeated plea to be taken home resembles the prodigal's turn toward his father's house, a longing for belonging and rest.

  • “Just tryin' to find my way back home”

    Dead and Gone (feat. Justin Timberlake) · T.I.

    resonates with Luke 15:17-20

    The longing to return home after a destructive season echoes the prodigal's turn, though here the father waiting is left undefined.

  • “Forgive me, father, I love you, mother”

    Can You Feel My Heart · Bring Me The Horizon

    resonates with Luke 15:18

    Like the prodigal son rehearsing his confession, this line reaches toward reconciliation and admission of wrong rather than self-justification.

  • “I'm only one call away from home”

    Son of a Sinner · Jelly Roll

    resonates with Luke 15:18-20

    Like the prodigal son, he knows the way back is still open even mid-wandering, and that home will receive him.

Each reading weighs one song’s words against Scripture. It is AI-assisted and can be wrong; open a song to see its whole reading and decide for yourself.

Elsewhere in Luke 15