Luke 15:13

Bible in Basic English 1965

And not long after, the younger son got together everything which was his and took a journey into a far-away country, and there all his money went in foolish living.

Cross References

Jeremiah 2:5

These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?

Proverbs 29:3

A man who is a lover of wisdom is a joy to his father: but he who goes in the company of loose women is a waster of wealth.

Proverbs 21:17

The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.

Proverbs 28:7

He who keeps the law is a wise son, but he who keeps company with feasters puts shame on his father.

Luke 16:19

Now there was a certain man of great wealth, who was dressed in fair clothing of purple and delicate linen, and was shining and glad every day.

Luke 16:1

And another time he said to the disciples, There was a certain man of great wealth who had a servant; and it was said to him that this servant was wasting his goods.

Luke 15:30

But when this your son came, who has been wasting your property with bad women, you put to death the fat young ox for him.

Micah 6:3

O my people, what have I done to you? how have I been a weariness to you? give answer against me.

Jeremiah 2:31

O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again?

Jeremiah 2:13

For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.

Isaiah 56:12

Come, they say, I will get wine, and we will take strong drink in full measure; and tomorrow will be like today, full of pleasure.

Isaiah 30:11

Get out of the good way, turning from the right road; do not keep the Holy One of Israel before our minds.

Isaiah 22:13

But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.

Isaiah 1:4

O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.

Proverbs 27:8

Like a bird wandering from the place of her eggs is a man wandering from his station.

Proverbs 21:20

There is a store of great value in the house of the wise, but it is wasted by the foolish man.

Proverbs 18:9

He who does not give his mind to his work is brother to him who makes destruction.

Proverbs 6:26

For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

Psalm 73:27

For those who are far away from you will come to destruction: you will put an end to all those who have not kept faith with you.

2 Peter 2:13

For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy;

Ephesians 2:17

And he came preaching peace to you who were far off, and to those who were near;

Ephesians 2:13

But now in Christ Jesus you who at one time were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

Luke 15:12

And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me that part of your property which will be mine. And he made division of his goods between them.

Luke 15:14

And when everything was gone, there was no food to be had in that country, and he was in need.