Luke 15:30

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

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

Cross References

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].

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.’”

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.