Luke 15:30 - Tree of Life Version

³⁰ But when this son of yours came—the one who has squandered your wealth with prostitutes—for him you killed the fattened 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.'

Luke 15:30 Cross References

Exodus 32:11

Then Moses sought Adonai his God and said, “Adonai, why should Your wrath burn hot against Your people, whom You have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

Exodus 32:7

Then Adonai said to Moses, “Go down! For your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have become debased.

Proverbs 29:3

Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

Mark 12:44

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

Luke 15:29

But he answered and said to his father, ‘Look, so many years I’ve slaved away for you—not once did I ignore your order. Yet you’ve never given me a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

Luke 15:31

“Then the father said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and everything that is mine is yours.

Luke 15:32

But it was right to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead but has come back to life! He was lost, but is found.’”

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: ‘O God, I thank You that I am not like other people—thieving, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.