Luke 15:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

He would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, and no one gave him anything.

Cross References

Job 30:4

they pick mallow and the leaves of bushes and to warm themselves the roots of broom.

Psalm 142:4

Look on my right hand and see: there is no one who takes notice of me; no refuge remains to me; no one cares for me.

Psalm 73:22

I was stupid and ignorant; I was like a brute beast toward you.

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes; a deluded mind has led him astray, and he cannot save himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a fraud?”

Isaiah 55:2

Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread and your earnings for that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.

Isaiah 57:3

But as for you, come here, you children of a sorceress, you offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute.

Lamentations 4:5

Those who feasted on delicacies perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple cling to ash heaps.

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim herds the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a treaty with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.

Matthew 7:6

“Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under foot and turn and maul you.

Luke 15:15

So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that region, who sent him to his fields to feed the pigs.

Luke 15:17

But when he came to his senses he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired hands have bread enough and to spare, but here I am dying of hunger!