Luke 15:13

The younger son squanders everything in reckless living in a distant land, depicting the sinner's flight from God.

Cross-references · 33

• Jer 2:5This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me, and followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?
• Prov 29:3A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
• Prov 21:17He who loves pleasure will become poor; the one who loves wine and oil will never be rich.
• Prov 23:19–22Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right course.
• Luke 15:30But when this son of yours returns from squandering your wealth with prostitutes, you kill the fattened calf for him!’
• Eccl 11:9–10Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.
• Luke 16:19Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.
• Luke 16:1Jesus also said to His disciples, “There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions.
• Prov 28:7A discerning son keeps the law, but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.
• Job 21:13–15They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.
• Rom 13:13–14Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
• Prov 6:26For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
• Ps 10:4–6In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.
• Isa 22:13But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
• Isa 56:12“Come, let me get the wine, let us imbibe the strong drink, and tomorrow will be like today, only far better!”
• Isa 1:4Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.
• Prov 5:8–14Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,
• Jer 2:13“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
• Jer 2:17–19Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?
• 1 Pet 4:3–4For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
• Jer 2:31You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to You no more’?
• 2 Chr 33:1–10Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years.
• Prov 18:9Whoever is slothful in his work is brother to him who destroys.
• Prov 21:20Precious treasures and oil are in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man consumes them.
• Amos 6:3–7You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.
• Ps 73:27Those far from You will surely perish; You destroy all who are unfaithful to You.
• Isa 30:11Get out of the way; turn off the road. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!”
• Eph 2:13But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.
• Eph 2:17He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.
• Prov 27:8Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who wanders from his home.
• Job 22:17–18They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’
• 2 Pet 2:13The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you.
• Mic 6:3‘My people, what have I done to you? Testify against Me how I have wearied you!

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