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Luke 15:30 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’ "

Luke 15:30

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28 But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and begged him.

29 But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

30 But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’

31 “He said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.

32 But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’”

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"While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,"

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"But she answered him, “Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”"

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From This Chapter

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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