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

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.

So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and told him, "Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: 'How long do you refuse to humble yourself before me? Release my people so that they may serve me!

During his time of trouble King Ahaz was even more unfaithful to the Lord.

Why do you insist on being battered? Why do you continue to rebel? Your head has a massive wound, your whole body is weak.

I was angry because of their sinful greed; I attacked them and angrily rejected them, yet they remained disobedient and stubborn.

Lord, I know you look for faithfulness. But even when you punish these people, they feel no remorse. Even when you nearly destroy them, they refuse to be corrected. They have become as hardheaded as a rock. They refuse to change their ways.

The Lord said to me, "Tell them, 'The Lord says, Do people not get back up when they fall down? Do they not turn around when they go the wrong way?

I have indeed heard the people of Israel say mournfully, 'We were like a calf untrained to the yoke. You disciplined us and we learned from it. Let us come back to you and we will do so, for you are the Lord our God.

correcting opponents with gentleness. Perhaps God will grant them repentance and then knowledge of the truth

I have given her time to repent, but she is not willing to repent of her sexual immorality.

To feed

Now a large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, and the demonic spirits begged Jesus to let them go into them. He gave them permission.

So now, bear your disgrace, because you have given your sisters reason to justify their behavior. Because the sins you have committed were more abominable than those of your sisters; they have become more righteous than you. So now, be ashamed and bear the disgrace of making your sisters appear righteous.

I will pelt you with filth; I will treat you with contempt; I will make you a public spectacle.

"Therefore, I have caused you to be ignored and belittled before all people to the extent to which you are not following after me and are showing partiality in your instruction."

Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.

But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals,

in which you formerly lived according to this world's present path, according to the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience,

So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.