Luke 15:30

New International Version

But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!’

Cross References

Proverbs 29:3

A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.

Luke 15:32

But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ ”

Exodus 32:11

But Moses sought the favor of the Lord his God. “Lord,” he said, “why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?

Exodus 32:7

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt.

Mark 12:44

They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.”

Luke 15:29

But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

Luke 15:31

“ ‘My son,’ the father said, ‘you are always with me, and everything I have is yours.