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Luke 15:13 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living. "
Luke 15:13
Verse in Context
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11 He said, “A certain man had two sons.
12 The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.’ So he divided his livelihood between them.
13 Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.
14 When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.
15 He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
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Luke 15:1
"Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him."
Luke 15:2
"The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”"
Luke 15:3
"He told them this parable:"
Luke 15:4
"“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?"
Luke 15:5
"When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing."
Luke 15:6
"When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’"
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