Thematic Bible: Prodigality


Thematic Bible



'And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously; Verse ConceptsGluttonyExtravaganceExcessBad Decision Making ExamplesBuying and sellingLeisure, Nature And Purpose OfLossThriftWantonnessDeparturesA Short TimeFar From HereShort Time Till The EndThey Committed Immorality

And he goeth up thence to Beth-El, and he is going up in the way, and little youths have come out from the city, and scoff at him, and say to him, 'Go up, bald-head! go up, bald-head!' Verse ConceptsBaldnessdisabilitiesImmaturityRoadsTownMockingWicked Children, Examples OfInfidelity To GodDisrespect For Old AgeAge DiscriminationKidsFunhumorharassment

And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock. Verse ConceptsdogsMockeryOld Age, Attitudes ToRidicule, Objects OfDisrespect For Old AgeDerisionDisdainFun

Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured. Verse ConceptsOld Age, Attitudes ToRespect, For Human BeingsDisrespect For Old Age

Who are drinking with bowls of wine, And with chief perfumes anoint themselves, And have not been pained for the breach of Joseph. Verse ConceptsAnointing, Social CustomOintmentDrinking WineAnointing OneselfNot Mourning

'And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously; Verse ConceptsGluttonyExtravaganceExcessBad Decision Making ExamplesBuying and sellingLeisure, Nature And Purpose OfLossThriftWantonnessDeparturesA Short TimeFar From HereShort Time Till The EndThey Committed Immorality

but when thy son -- this one who did devour thy living with harlots -- came, thou didst kill to him the fatted calf. Verse ConceptsBitterness, Examples OfProstitutionWantonnessFat AnimalsKilling Domesticated AnimalsEating Cattle



'And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously; Verse ConceptsGluttonyExtravaganceExcessBad Decision Making ExamplesBuying and sellingLeisure, Nature And Purpose OfLossThriftWantonnessDeparturesA Short TimeFar From HereShort Time Till The EndThey Committed Immorality

and he having spent all, there came a mighty famine on that country, and himself began to be in want; Verse ConceptsNeedPoverty, Causes OfSpiritual DestitutionMoral BankruptcyBeing UnsatisfiedShortagesBecoming PoorA Fool And His Money Shall Part

Jesus answered and said to her, 'Every one who is drinking of this water shall thirst again; Verse ConceptsThe Water Of LifeBeing UnsatisfiedDrinking Water

And the fruits of the desire of thy soul did go away from thee, and all things -- the dainty and the bright -- did go away from thee, and no more at all mayest thou find them. Verse ConceptsMoney, Attitudes ToTreasureBeing UnsatisfiedThings Passing Away

And he goeth up thence to Beth-El, and he is going up in the way, and little youths have come out from the city, and scoff at him, and say to him, 'Go up, bald-head! go up, bald-head!' Verse ConceptsBaldnessdisabilitiesImmaturityRoadsTownMockingWicked Children, Examples OfInfidelity To GodDisrespect For Old AgeAge DiscriminationKidsFunhumorharassment

And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock. Verse ConceptsdogsMockeryOld Age, Attitudes ToRidicule, Objects OfDisrespect For Old AgeDerisionDisdainFun

Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured. Verse ConceptsOld Age, Attitudes ToRespect, For Human BeingsDisrespect For Old Age