Luke 15:16

New International Reader's Version

The son wanted to fill his stomach with the food the pigs were eating. But no one gave him anything.

Cross References

Job 30:4

Among the bushes they gathered salty plants. They ate the roots of desert bushes.

Psalm 142:4

Look and see that no one is on my right side to help me. No one is concerned about me. I have no place of safety. No one cares whether I live or die.

Psalm 73:22

I didn’t have any sense. I didn’t know anything. I acted like a wild animal toward you.

Isaiah 44:20

That’s as foolish as eating ashes! The mind of someone like that has led him astray. He can’t save himself. He can’t bring himself to say, “This thing I’m holding in my right hand isn’t really a god at all.”

Isaiah 55:2

Why spend money on what is not food? Why work for what does not satisfy you? Listen carefully to me. Then you will eat what is good. You will enjoy the richest food there is.

Isaiah 57:3

The Lord says, “Come here, you children of women who practice evil magic! You are children of prostitutes and those who commit adultery.

Lamentations 4:5

Those who once ate fine food are dying in the streets. Those who wore royal clothes are now lying on piles of trash.

Hosea 12:1

The people of Ephraim look to others for help. It’s like chasing the wind. The wind they keep chasing is hot and dry. They tell more and more lies. They are always hurting others. They make a peace treaty with Assyria. They send olive oil to Egypt to get help.

Matthew 7:6

“Do not give holy things to dogs. Do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they might walk all over them. They might turn around and tear you to pieces.

Luke 15:15

He went to work for someone who lived in that country. That person sent the son to the fields to feed the pigs.

Luke 15:17

“Then he began to think clearly again. He said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have more than enough food! But here I am dying from hunger!