Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Devoured

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Luke 15:32
But it became us to make merry and rejoice; for this your brother was dead, and is alive again: was lost, and is found.
Luke 18:11
The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself: God, I thank thee that I am not as other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.

Devoured

Luke 15:13
And not many days after, the younger son, taking with him all that was his, left home for a distant country, and there wasted his property in riotous living.

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Luke 15:2
And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying: This man receives sinners, and eats with them.