Luke 15:13

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After a few days, the younger son gathered together all he had and left on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth with a wild lifestyle.

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  • Luke 16:1 : 1 The Parable of the Clever Steward Jesus also said to the disciples,“There was a rich man who was informed of accusations that his manager was wasting his assets.
  • Luke 16:19 : 19 The Rich Man and Lazarus“There was a rich man who dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.
  • 2 Chr 33:1-9 : 1 Manasseh’s Reign Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem. 2 He did evil in the sight of the LORD and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations whom the LORD drove out ahead of the Israelites. 3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshiped them. 4 He built altars in the LORD’s temple, about which the LORD had said,“Jerusalem will be my permanent home.” 5 In the two courtyards of the LORD’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky. 6 He passed his sons through the fire in the Valley of Ben Hinnom and practiced divination, omen reading, and sorcery. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits and appointed magicians to supervise it. He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the LORD and angered him. 7 He put an idolatrous image he had made in God’s temple, about which God had said to David and to his son Solomon,“This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home. 8 I will not make Israel again leave the land I gave to their ancestors, provided that they carefully obey all I commanded them, the whole law, the rules and regulations given through Moses.” 9 But Manasseh misled the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem so that they sinned more than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed ahead of the Israelites. 10 The LORD confronted Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention.
  • Job 21:13-15 : 13 They live out their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace. 14 So they say to God,‘Turn away from us! We do not want to know your ways. 15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain if we were to pray to him?’
  • Job 22:17-18 : 17 They were saying to God,‘Turn away from us,’ and‘What can the Almighty do to us?’ 18 But it was he who filled their houses with good things– yet the counsel of the wicked was far from me.
  • Ps 10:4-6 : 4 The wicked man is so arrogant he always thinks,“God won’t hold me accountable; he doesn’t care.” 5 He is secure at all times. He has no regard for your commands; he disdains all his enemies. 6 He says to himself,“I will never be shaken, because I experience no calamity.”
  • Ps 73:27 : 27 Yes, look! Those far from you die; you destroy everyone who is unfaithful to you.
  • Prov 5:8-9 : 8 Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house, 9 lest you give your vigor to others and your years to a cruel person, 10 lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man’s house. 11 And at the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are wasted away. 12 And you will say,“How I hated discipline! My heart spurned reproof! 13 For I did not obey my teachers and I did not heed my instructors. 14 I almost came to complete ruin in the midst of the whole congregation!”
  • Prov 6:26 : 26 for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life.
  • Prov 18:9 : 9 The one who is slack in his work is a brother to one who destroys.
  • Prov 21:17 : 17 The one who loves pleasure will be a poor person; whoever loves wine and anointing oil will not be rich.
  • Prov 21:20 : 20 There is desirable treasure and olive oil in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish person devours all he has.
  • Prov 23:19-22 : 19 Listen, my child, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right way. 20 Do not spend time among drunkards, among those who eat too much meat, 21 because drunkards and gluttons become impoverished, and drowsiness clothes them with rags. 22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
  • Prov 27:8 : 8 Like a bird that wanders from its nest, so is a person who wanders from his home.
  • Prov 28:7 : 7 The one who keeps the law is a discerning child, but a companion of gluttons brings shame to his parents.
  • Prov 29:3 : 3 The man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but whoever associates with prostitutes wastes his wealth.
  • Eccl 11:9-9 : 9 Enjoy Life to the Fullest under the Fear of God Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes, but know that God will judge your motives and actions. 10 Banish emotional stress from your mind. and put away pain from your body; for youth and the prime of life are fleeting.
  • Isa 1:4 : 4 Beware sinful nation, the people weighed down by evil deeds. They are offspring who do wrong, children who do wicked things. They have abandoned the LORD, and rejected the Holy One of Israel. They are alienated from him.
  • Isa 22:13 : 13 But look, there is outright celebration! You say,“Kill the ox and slaughter the sheep, eat meat and drink wine. Eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
  • Isa 30:11 : 11 Turn aside from the way; stray off the path. Remove from our presence the Holy One of Israel.”
  • Isa 56:12 : 12 Each one says,‘Come on, I’ll get some wine! Let’s guzzle some beer! Tomorrow will be just like today! We’ll have everything we want!’
  • Jer 2:5 : 5 This is what the Lord says:“What fault could your ancestors have possibly found in me that they strayed so far from me? They paid allegiance to worthless idols, and so became worthless to me.
  • Jer 2:13 : 13 “Do so because my people have committed a double wrong: they have rejected me, the fountain of life-giving water, and they have dug cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns which cannot even hold water.”
  • Jer 2:17-19 : 17 You have brought all this on yourself, Israel, by deserting the LORD your God when he was leading you along the right path. 18 What good will it do you then to go down to Egypt to seek help from the Egyptians? What good will it do you to go over to Assyria to seek help from the Assyrians? 19 Your own wickedness will bring about your punishment. Your unfaithful acts will bring down discipline on you. Know, then, and realize how utterly harmful it was for you to reject me, the LORD your God, to show no respect for me,” says the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
  • Jer 2:31 : 31 You people of this generation, listen to the LORD’s message.“Have I been like a wilderness to you, Israel? Have I been like a dark and dangerous land to you? Why then do you say,‘We are free to wander. We will not come to you any more?’
  • Amos 6:3-7 : 3 You refuse to believe a day of disaster will come, but you establish a reign of violence. 4 They lie around on beds decorated with ivory, and sprawl out on their couches. They eat lambs from the flock, and calves from the middle of the pen. 5 They sing to the tune of stringed instruments; like David they invent musical instruments. 6 They drink wine from sacrificial bowls, and pour the very best oils on themselves. Yet they are not concerned over the ruin of Joseph. 7 Therefore they will now be the first to go into exile, and the religious banquets where they sprawl on couches will end.
  • Mic 6:3 : 3 “My people, how have I wronged you? How have I wearied you? Answer me!
  • Luke 15:30 : 30 But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’
  • Rom 13:13-14 : 13 Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy. 14 Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires.
  • Eph 2:13 : 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who used to be far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
  • Eph 2:17 : 17 And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near,
  • 1 Pet 4:3-4 : 3 For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians desire. You lived then in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, and wanton idolatries. 4 So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.
  • 2 Pet 2:13 : 13 suffering harm as the wages for their harmful ways. By considering it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight, they are stains and blemishes, indulging in their deceitful pleasures when they feast together with you.

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    11The Parable of the Compassionate Father Then Jesus said,“A man had two sons.

    12The younger of them said to his father,‘Father, give me the share of the estate that will belong to me.’ So he divided his assets between them.

  • Luke 15:14-32
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    14Then after he had spent everything, a severe famine took place in that country, and he began to be in need.

    15So he went and worked for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.

    16He was longing to eat the carob pods the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.

    17But when he came to his senses he said,‘How many of my father’s hired workers have food enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!

    18I will get up and go to my father and say to him,“Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.

    19I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired workers.”’

    20So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way from home his father saw him, and his heart went out to him; he ran and hugged his son and kissed him.

    21Then his son said to him,‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

    22But the father said to his slaves,‘Hurry! Bring the best robe, and put it on him! Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet!

    23Bring the fattened calf and kill it! Let us eat and celebrate,

    24because this son of mine was dead, and is alive again– he was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.

    25“Now his older son was in the field. As he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing.

    26So he called one of the slaves and asked what was happening.

    27The slave replied,‘Your brother has returned, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he got his son back safe and sound.’

    28But the older son became angry and refused to go in. His father came out and appealed to him,

    29but he answered his father,‘Look! These many years I have worked like a slave for you, and I never disobeyed your commands. Yet you never gave me even a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends!

    30But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’

    31Then the father said to him,‘Son, you are always with me, and everything that belongs to me is yours.

    32It was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost and is found.’”

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    3So Jesus told them this parable:

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    5Then when he has found it, he places it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

    6Returning home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, telling them,‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost.’

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    1The Parable of the Clever Steward Jesus also said to the disciples,“There was a rich man who was informed of accusations that his manager was wasting his assets.

    2So he called the manager in and said to him,‘What is this I hear about you? Turn in the account of your administration, because you can no longer be my manager.’

    3Then the manager said to himself,‘What should I do, since my master is taking my position away from me? I’m not strong enough to dig, and I’m too ashamed to beg.

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    29The boy answered,‘I will not.’ But later he had a change of heart and went.

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    18Then he said,‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

    19And I will say to myself,“You have plenty of goods stored up for many years; relax, eat, drink, celebrate!”’

    20But God said to him,‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

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    13And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he will rejoice more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.

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    16But Jesus said to him,“A man once gave a great banquet and invited many guests.

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    25A foolish child is a grief to his father, and bitterness to the mother who bore him.

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    14Then that wealth was lost through bad luck; although he fathered a son, he has nothing left to give him.

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    5But they were indifferent and went away, one to his farm, another to his business.

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    20A wise child brings joy to his father, but a foolish person despises his mother.

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