Luke 15:11-13

To illustrate the point further, Jesus told them this story: "A man had two sons. The younger son told his father, 'I want my share of your estate now before you die.' So his father agreed to divide his wealth between his sons. A few days later this younger son packed all his belongings and moved to a distant land, and there he wasted all his money in wild living."

 

"A man had two sons."

Matthew 21:28-30  "But what do you think about this? A man with two sons told the older boy, 'Son, go out and work in the vineyard today.' The son answered, 'No, I won't go,' but later he changed his mind and went anyway. Then the father told the other son, 'You go,' and he said, 'Yes, sir, I will.' but he didn't go." (see verses 28-32)

"The younger son told his father, 'I want my share of your estate now before you die.' So his father agreed to divide his wealth between his sons."

Deuteronomy 21:15-17  "Suppose a man has two wives, but he loves one and not the other, and both have given him sons. And suppose the firstborn son is the son of the wife he does not love. When the man divides his inheritance, he may not give the larger inheritance to his youngest son, the son of the wife he loves, as if he were the firstborn son. He must recognize the rights of his oldest son, the son of the wife he does not love, by giving him a double portion. He is the first son of his father's virility, and the rights of the firstborn belong to him." 

"A few days later this younger son packed all his belongings and moved to a distant land, and there he wasted all his money in wild living."  

Luke 15:30  " 'Yet when this son of yours comes back after squandering your money on prostitutes, you celebrate by killing the fattened calf!' "

Luke 16:1  Jesus told this story to his disciples: "There was a certain rich man who had a manager handling his affairs. One day a report came that the manager was wasting his employer's money. (see verses 1-13)

1 Peter 4:3-5  You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy--their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wild parties, and their terrible worship of idols. Of course, your former friends are surprised when you no longer plunge into the flood of wild and destructive things they do. So they slander you. But remember that they will have to face God, who will judge everyone, both the living and the dead.                            

 

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