Luke 15:17

Easy To Read Version

The boy realized that he had been very foolish. He thought, ‘All of my father’s servants have plenty of food. But I am here, almost dead because I have nothing to eat.

Cross References

Psalm 119:59

I thought very carefully about my life.\par And I came back to your Agreement. {\cf2\super [593]} \par

Psalm 73:20

Lord, those people will be like a dream\par that we forget when we wake up.\par You will make those people disappear\par like the monsters in our dreams.\par

Ecclesiastes 9:3

Of all the things that happen in this life, the worst thing is that all people end the same way. But it is also very bad that people always think evil and foolish thoughts. And those thoughts lead to death.

Jeremiah 31:19

Lord, I wandered away from you.\par But I learned about the bad things I did.\par So I changed my heart and life.\par I am ashamed and embarrassed about the foolish things I did when I was young.’\par

Lamentations 1:7

Jerusalem thinks back.\par Jerusalem remembers the time\par when she was hurt\par and when she lost her home.\par She remembers all the nice things\par that she had in the past.\par She remembers those nice things\par that she had in the old days.\par She remembers when her people\par were captured by the enemy.\par She remembers when there was no person\par to help her.\par When her enemies saw her, they laughed.\par They laughed because she was destroyed.\par

Ezekiel 18:28

That person saw how bad he was and came back to me. He stopped doing the bad things he did in the past. So he will live! He won’t die!”

Hosea 2:7

She will run after her lovers, but she will not be able to catch up with them. She will look for her lovers, but she will not be able to find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go back to my first husband (God). Life was better for me when I was with him. Life was better then than it is now.’

Luke 15:16

The son was so hungry that he wanted to eat the food that the pigs were eating. But no person gave him anything.

Luke 16:23

He was sent to the place of death {\cf2\super [266]} and had much pain. The rich man saw Abraham far away with Lazarus in his arms.

Luke 8:35

People went out to see what happened. The people came to Jesus and found the man sitting there at the feet of Jesus. The man had clothes on and was in his right mind again; the demons {\cf2\super [154]} were gone. The people became afraid.

Acts 12:11

Peter realized then what had happened. He thought, “Now I know that the Lord really sent his angel to me. He rescued (saved) me from Herod. {\cf2\super [238]} The Jewish people thought that bad things would happen to me. But the Lord saved me from all these things.”

Acts 2:37

When the people heard this, they felt very, very sorry. They asked Peter and the other apostles, {\cf2\super [41]} “Brothers, what should we do?”

Ephesians 5:14

And everything that is made easy to see can become light. This is why we say: