Luke 15:30

New English Translation

But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’

Cross References

Exodus 32:11

But Moses sought the favor of the Lord his God and said, “O Lord, why does your anger burn against your people, whom you have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

Exodus 32:7

The Lord spoke to Moses: “Go quickly, descend, because your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have acted corruptly.

Proverbs 29:3

The man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but whoever associates with prostitutes wastes his wealth.

Mark 12:44

For they all gave out of their wealth. But she, out of her poverty, put in what she had to live on, everything she had.”

Luke 15:29

but he answered his father, ‘Look! These many years I have worked like a slave for you, and I never disobeyed your commands. Yet you never gave me even a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends!

Luke 15:31

Then the father said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and everything that belongs to me is yours.

Luke 15:32

It was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost and is found.’”

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood and prayed about himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: extortionists, unrighteous people, adulterers – or even like this tax collector.