Luke 15:30 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³⁰ But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your living with harlots, you killed for him the fatted calf!’

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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

Exodus 32:11

But Moses besought the Lord his God, and said, “O Lord, why does thy wrath burn hot against thy people, whom thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

Exodus 32:7

And the Lord said to Moses, “Go down; for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves;

Proverbs 29:3

He who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but one who keeps company with harlots squanders his substance.

Mark 12:44

For they all contributed out of their abundance; but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, her whole living.”

Luke 15:29

but he answered his father, ‘Lo, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command; yet you never gave me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends.

Luke 15:31

And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.

Luke 15:32

It was fitting to make merry and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.’ ”

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank thee that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.