Luke 15:15

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Summary

Luke 15:15

And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

He went

To feed

Bible References

He went

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

And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.

And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz.

Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

For the iniquity of his covetousness was I angry, and struck him: I hid myself, and was angry, and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

O LORD, are not your eyes upon the truth? you have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

Moreover you shall say unto them, Thus says the LORD; Shall they fall, and not rise? shall he turn away, and not return?

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: restore me, and I shall return; for you are the LORD my God.

In meekness instructing those that oppose them; if God perhaps will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;

And I gave her time to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.

To feed

And there was there a herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would allow them to enter into them. And he allowed them.

You also, who have judged your sisters, bear your own shame for your sins that you have committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than you: yea, be disgraced also, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters.

And I will cast abominable filth upon you, and make you vile, and will make you a spectacle.

Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as you have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.

Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:

But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

In which in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience:

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.