Luke 15:16

Bible in Basic English 1965

And so great was his need that he would have been glad to take the pigs' food, and no one gave him anything.

Cross References

Job 30:4

They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.

Psalm 142:4

Looking to my right side, I saw no man who was my friend: I had no safe place; no one had any care for my soul.

Psalm 73:22

As for me, I was foolish, and without knowledge; I was like a beast before you.

Isaiah 44:20

As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.

Isaiah 55:2

Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.

Isaiah 57:3

But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.

Lamentations 4:5

Those who were used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets: those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust.

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim's food is the wind, and he goes after the east wind: deceit and destruction are increasing day by day; they make an agreement with Assyria, and take oil into Egypt.

Matthew 7:6

Do not give that which is holy to the dogs, or put your jewels before pigs, for fear that they will be crushed under foot by the pigs whose attack will then be made against you.

Luke 15:15

And he went and put himself into the hands of one of the people of that country, and he sent him into his fields to give the pigs their food.

Luke 15:17

But when he came to his senses, he said, What numbers of my father's servants have bread enough, and more, while I am near to death here through need of food!