Thematic Bible: Prodigality


Thematic Bible



And not many days later, the younger son gathered everything together and went on a journey into a distant country, and there he squandered his estate with loose living. Verse ConceptsGluttonyExtravaganceExcessBad Decision Making ExamplesBuying and sellingLeisure, Nature And Purpose OfLossThriftWantonnessDeparturesA Short TimeFar From HereShort Time Till The EndThey Committed Immorality

Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!” Verse ConceptsBaldnessdisabilitiesImmaturityRoadsTownMockingWicked Children, Examples OfInfidelity To GodDisrespect For Old AgeAge DiscriminationKidsFunhumorharassment

“But now those younger than I mock me,
Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.
Verse ConceptsdogsMockeryOld Age, Attitudes ToRidicule, Objects OfDisrespect For Old AgeDerisionDisdainFun

Princes were hung by their hands;
Elders were not respected.
Verse ConceptsOld Age, Attitudes ToRespect, For Human BeingsDisrespect For Old Age

Who drink wine from sacrificial bowls
While they anoint themselves with the finest of oils,
Yet they have not grieved over the ruin of Joseph.
Verse ConceptsAnointing, Social CustomOintmentDrinking WineAnointing OneselfNot Mourning

And not many days later, the younger son gathered everything together and went on a journey into a distant country, and there he squandered his estate with loose living. Verse ConceptsGluttonyExtravaganceExcessBad Decision Making ExamplesBuying and sellingLeisure, Nature And Purpose OfLossThriftWantonnessDeparturesA Short TimeFar From HereShort Time Till The EndThey Committed Immorality

but when this son of yours came, who has devoured your wealth with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’ Verse ConceptsBitterness, Examples OfProstitutionWantonnessFat AnimalsKilling Domesticated AnimalsEating Cattle



And not many days later, the younger son gathered everything together and went on a journey into a distant country, and there he squandered his estate with loose living. Verse ConceptsGluttonyExtravaganceExcessBad Decision Making ExamplesBuying and sellingLeisure, Nature And Purpose OfLossThriftWantonnessDeparturesA Short TimeFar From HereShort Time Till The EndThey Committed Immorality

Now when he had spent everything, a severe famine occurred in that country, and he began to be impoverished. Verse ConceptsNeedPoverty, Causes OfSpiritual DestitutionMoral BankruptcyBeing UnsatisfiedShortagesBecoming PoorA Fool And His Money Shall Part

Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; Verse ConceptsThe Water Of LifeBeing UnsatisfiedDrinking Water

The fruit you long for has gone from you, and all things that were luxurious and splendid have passed away from you and men will no longer find them. Verse ConceptsMoney, Attitudes ToTreasureBeing UnsatisfiedThings Passing Away

Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!” Verse ConceptsBaldnessdisabilitiesImmaturityRoadsTownMockingWicked Children, Examples OfInfidelity To GodDisrespect For Old AgeAge DiscriminationKidsFunhumorharassment

“But now those younger than I mock me,
Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.
Verse ConceptsdogsMockeryOld Age, Attitudes ToRidicule, Objects OfDisrespect For Old AgeDerisionDisdainFun

Princes were hung by their hands;
Elders were not respected.
Verse ConceptsOld Age, Attitudes ToRespect, For Human BeingsDisrespect For Old Age