Thematic Bible: Prodigality


Thematic Bible



Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living. Verse ConceptsGluttonyExtravaganceExcessBad Decision Making ExamplesBuying and sellingLeisure, Nature And Purpose OfLossThriftWantonnessDeparturesA Short TimeFar From HereShort Time Till The EndThey Committed Immorality

He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, "Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!" Verse ConceptsBaldnessdisabilitiesImmaturityRoadsTownMockingWicked Children, Examples OfInfidelity To GodDisrespect For Old AgeAge DiscriminationKidsFunhumorharassment

"But now they laugh at me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock. Verse ConceptsdogsMockeryOld Age, Attitudes ToRidicule, Objects OfDisrespect For Old AgeDerisionDisdainFun

Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders. Verse ConceptsOld Age, Attitudes ToRespect, For Human BeingsDisrespect For Old Age

who drink wine in bowls and anoint themselves with the finest oils, but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph! Verse ConceptsAnointing, Social CustomOintmentDrinking WineAnointing OneselfNot Mourning

Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless 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 property with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!' Verse ConceptsBitterness, Examples OfProstitutionWantonnessFat AnimalsKilling Domesticated AnimalsEating Cattle



Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living. Verse ConceptsGluttonyExtravaganceExcessBad Decision Making ExamplesBuying and sellingLeisure, Nature And Purpose OfLossThriftWantonnessDeparturesA Short TimeFar From HereShort Time Till The EndThey Committed Immorality

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

Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, Verse ConceptsThe Water Of LifeBeing UnsatisfiedDrinking Water

"The fruit for which your soul longed has gone from you, and all your delicacies and your splendors are lost to you, never to be found again!" Verse ConceptsMoney, Attitudes ToTreasureBeing UnsatisfiedThings Passing Away

He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, "Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!" Verse ConceptsBaldnessdisabilitiesImmaturityRoadsTownMockingWicked Children, Examples OfInfidelity To GodDisrespect For Old AgeAge DiscriminationKidsFunhumorharassment

"But now they laugh at me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock. Verse ConceptsdogsMockeryOld Age, Attitudes ToRidicule, Objects OfDisrespect For Old AgeDerisionDisdainFun

Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders. Verse ConceptsOld Age, Attitudes ToRespect, For Human BeingsDisrespect For Old Age

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