Luke 15:13

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Summary

And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

And took

Wasted

General references

Jeremiah 35:16

Bible References

And took

Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:

They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

Who said to God, depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them!

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

For lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go astray from thee.

As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, they are gone away backward.

Withdraw from the way, turn aside from the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?

O my people, what have I done to thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me,

But now, in Christ Jesus, ye, who formerly were far off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

Wasted

But as soon as this thy son had come, who hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

And he said also to his disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward; and the same was accused to him that he had wasted his goods.

Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

For by means of a lewd woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thy heart in the way.

He who keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.

He that loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thy eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

And 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.

Come ye, say they, I will bring wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to-morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.

Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

For 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, revelings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

And 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;

General references

Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but this people hath not hearkened to me: