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
We ought also to rejoice and be glad; for this your brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
Luke 18:11
The Pharisee, standing by himself, offered this prayer; God, I thank thee that I am not as other men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican;

Devoured

Luke 15:13
And not many days after, the youngest son, collecting all his property, went abroad to a distant country; and there wasted his property, living intemperately.

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