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 2:5Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
• Prov 29:3Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.
• Prov 21:17He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
• Prov 23:19–22Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
• Luke 15:30But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
• Eccl 11:9–10Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
• Luke 16:19There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
• Luke 16:1And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.
• Prov 28:7Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
• Job 21:13–15They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
• Rom 13:13–14Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
• Prov 6:26For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
• Ps 10:4–6The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
• Isa 22:13And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
• Isa 56:12Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
• Isa 1:4Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
• Prov 5:8–14Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
• Jer 2:13For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
• Jer 2:17–19Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
• 1 Pet 4:3–4For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
• Jer 2:31O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
• 2 Chr 33:1–10Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
• Prov 18:9He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
• Prov 21:20There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.
• Amos 6:3–7Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
• Ps 73:27For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
• Isa 30:11Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
• Eph 2:13But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
• Eph 2:17And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
• Prov 27:8As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
• Job 22:17–18Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
• 2 Pet 2:13And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
• Mic 6:3O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.

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