Luke 15:30 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

³⁰ But when this son of yours came [home], after having squandered all you gave him on prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁰ but as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁰ But when this son of yours arrived, who has devoured your estate with immoral women, you have killed for him that [wheat-] fattened calf!

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁰ but when this thy son came, who hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou killedst for him the fatted calf.

Common English Bible

³⁰ But when this son of yours returned, after gobbling up your estate on prostitutes, you slaughtered the fattened calf for him.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁰ Yet after this son of yours returned, who has devoured his substance with loose women, you have killed the fatted calf for him.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁰ But as soon as this thy son is come, who hath devoured his substance with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

Luke 15:30 Cross References

Mark 12:44

For all of them threw in from their abundance, but being very poor, she threw in everything she had, even all she had to live on.”

Luke 15:29

But he replied to his father, ‘Look, I have served you [as a slave] for all these years and have never disobeyed any of your orders, yet you never gave me [even] a young goat, so I could enjoy myself with my friends.

Luke 15:31

And the father replied, ‘Son, you are always [here] with me, and everything I have is yours.

Luke 15:32

But it was [only] proper that we celebrate and have a good time, for this brother of yours was dead [spiritually], but is [now] alive again; he was lost [from me] but [now] is found.’”

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood up [conspicuously] and prayed about himself this way [i.e., bragging to God about how good he was], ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, sexually unfaithful to their mates, or even like that tax collector [over there].