And a few days later, this younger son gathered everything together and traveled to a distant country where he squandered his possessions in wild living.
They suffer wrong themselves for doing wrong to other people. They consider it [especially] pleasurable to carry on their drunken reveling, [even] during the daytime. They become blots and blemishes [i.e., like spoiled food] in your fellowship meal, as they revel in their deceitful behavior.
But now [that you are] in [fellowship with] Christ, you [Gentiles], who were once far away [from God], have been brought near [to Him] through the blood of Christ.
The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, [please] give me my share of your property that I have coming.’ So, the father divided up what he had to live on [with his two sons].