Luke 15:30

New Living Translation

Yet when this son of yours comes back after squandering your money on prostitutes, you celebrate by killing the fattened calf!’

Cross References

Exodus 32:11

But Moses tried to pacify the Lord his God. “O Lord!” he said. “Why are you so angry with your own people whom you brought from the land of Egypt with such great power and such a strong hand?

Exodus 32:7

The Lord told Moses, “Quick! Go down the mountain! Your people whom you brought from the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves.

Proverbs 29:3

The man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but if he hangs around with prostitutes, his wealth is wasted.

Mark 12:44

For they gave a tiny part of their surplus, but she, poor as she is, has given everything she had to live on.”

Luke 15:29

but he replied, ‘All these years I’ve slaved for you and never once refused to do a single thing you told me to. And in all that time you never gave me even one young goat for a feast with my friends.

Luke 15:31

“His father said to him, ‘Look, dear son, you have always stayed by me, and everything I have is yours.

Luke 15:32

We had to celebrate this happy day. For your brother was dead and has come back to life! He was lost, but now he is found!’”

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed this prayer: ‘I thank you, God, that I am not like other people—cheaters, sinners, adulterers. I’m certainly not like that tax collector!