Luke 15:30

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

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

Cross References

Exodus 32:11

But Moses implored the Lord his God, and said, “O Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

Exodus 32:7

The Lord said to Moses, “Go down at once! Your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have acted perversely;

Proverbs 29:3

A child who loves wisdom makes a parent glad, but to keep company with prostitutes is to squander one's substance.

Mark 12:44

For all of them have contributed out of their abundance; but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.”

Luke 15:29

But he answered his father, ‘Listen! For all these years I have been working like a slave for you, and I have never disobeyed your command; yet you have never given me even a young goat so that I might celebrate with my friends.

Luke 15:31

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

Luke 15:32

But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life; he was lost and has been found.’ ”

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee, standing by himself, was praying thus, ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: thieves, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.