Luke 15:30

Webster's Bible (1833)

But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.'

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  • Prov 29:3 : 3 Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; But a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
  • Luke 15:12-13 : 12 The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of your property.' He divided his livelihood between them. 13 Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.
  • Luke 15:22-23 : 22 "But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. 23 Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate;
  • Luke 15:32 : 32 But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.'"
  • Luke 18:11 : 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
  • Exod 32:7 : 7 Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!
  • Exod 32:11 : 11 Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, "Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

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  • Luke 15:31-32
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    87%

    31"He said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.

    32But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.'"

  • Luke 15:9-29
    21 verses
    86%

    9When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.'

    10Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting."

    11He said, "A certain man had two sons.

    12The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of your property.' He divided his livelihood between them.

    13Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

    14When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.

    15He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

    16He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.

    17But 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!

    18I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.

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

    20"He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

    21The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'

    22"But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.

    23Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate;

    24for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.' They began to celebrate.

    25"Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

    26He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on.

    27He said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.'

    28But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him.

    29But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

  • Luke 15:3-6
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    76%

    3He told them this parable.

    4"Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn't leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

    5When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

    6When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!'

  • Matt 21:28
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    28But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, 'Son, go work today in my vineyard.'

  • Matt 21:37-38
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    37But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, 'They will respect my son.'

    38But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and seize his inheritance.'

  • Job 1:18
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    18While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,

  • Luke 19:15
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    15"It happened when he had come back again, having received the kingdom, that he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business.

  • Luke 16:1-2
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    1He also said to his disciples, "There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

    2He called him, and said to him, 'What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.'

  • Matt 21:31
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    31Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said to him, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into the Kingdom of God before you.

  • Jas 5:5
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    5You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

  • Mark 12:6-7
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    70%

    6Therefore still having one, his beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'

    7But those farmers said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'

  • Luke 17:7-8
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    70%

    7But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, 'Come immediately and sit down at the table,'

    8and will not rather tell him, 'Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink'?

  • Deut 21:20
    69%

    20and they shall tell the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.

  • Matt 22:4
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    4Again he sent out other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited, "Behold, I have made ready my dinner. My oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast!"'

  • Luke 16:5
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    5Calling each one of his lord's debtors to him, he said to the first, 'How much do you owe to my lord?'

  • Luke 7:34
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    34The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'

  • Gen 27:18
    69%

    18He came to his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"

  • Matt 25:30
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    30Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

  • Matt 18:32
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    32Then his lord called him in, and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.

  • Luke 16:25
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    25"But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in like manner, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.

  • Prov 15:20
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    20A wise son makes a father glad, But a foolish man despises his mother.

  • Matt 25:27
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    27You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.