Luke 15:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the pigs ate: and no one gave him anything.

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  • Ps 142:4 : 4 I looked on my right hand and beheld, but there was no one who would know me; refuge failed me; no one cared for my soul.
  • Lam 4:5 : 5 Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets; those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
  • Rom 6:19-21 : 19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as servants of uncleanness and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as servants of righteousness for holiness. 20 For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness. 21 What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
  • Ps 73:22 : 22 So foolish was I, and ignorant; I was like a beast before You.
  • Hos 12:1 : 1 Ephraim feeds on the wind, and pursues the east wind; he daily increases lies and desolation, and they make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
  • Jonah 2:2-8 : 2 And said, I cried out because of my affliction to the LORD, and He heard me; out of the depths of the grave I cried, and You heard my voice. 3 For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas; and the floods surrounded me, all Your waves and billows passed over me. 4 Then I said, I am cast out of Your sight; yet I will look again toward Your holy temple. 5 The waters surrounded me, even to my soul: the depths closed in around me, the seaweed was wrapped around my head. 6 I went down to the foundations of the mountains; the earth with its bars was around me forever: yet You have brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God. 7 When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD; and my prayer came to You, into Your holy temple. 8 Those who regard worthless idols forsake their own mercy.
  • Isa 44:20 : 20 He feeds on ashes: a deceived heart has turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
  • Isa 55:2 : 2 Why do you spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in abundance.
  • Isa 57:3 : 3 But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the offspring of the adulterer and the whore.

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