Luke 15:13 Parallel Translations

"After a few days, the younger son gathered his possessions and left for a country far away from home. There he wasted everything he had on a wild lifestyle.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

ASV:

And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country; and there he wasted his substance with riotous living.

BBE:

And not long after, the younger son got together everything which was his and took a journey into a far-away country, and there all his money went in foolish living.

DBY:

And after not many days the younger son gathering all together went away into a country a long way off, and there dissipated his property, living in debauchery.

ERV:

And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country; and there he wasted his substance with riotous living.

WEY:

No long time afterwards the younger son got all together and travelled to a distant country, where he wasted his money in debauchery and excess.

WBS:

And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

WEB:

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.

YLT:

'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;

Luke 15:13 Cross References

XREF:

Luke 15:12 "The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the share of the estate that falls to me.' So he divided his wealth between them.

Luke 15:14 "Now when he had spent everything, a severe famine occurred in that country, and he began to be impoverished. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

PNT:

15:13 Into a far country. Wandered far away from the Father's house, from God.
Wasted his substance. All do in that far country. The worldly life is a wasted life. It is more baneful to waste our spiritual opportunities and resources than to waste earthly goods.

WES:

15:13 He took a journey into a far country - Far from God: God was not in all his thoughts: And squandered away his substance - All the grace he had received.

MHC:

15:11-16 The parable of the prodigal son shows the nature of repentance, and the Lord's readiness to welcome and bless all who return to him. It fully sets forth the riches of gospel grace; and it has been, and will be, while the world stands, of unspeakable use to poor sinners, to direct and to encourage them in repenting and returning to God. It is bad, and the beginning of worse, when men look upon God's gifts as debts due to them. The great folly of sinners, and that which ruins them, is, being content in their life-time to receive their good things. Our first parents ruined themselves and all their race, by a foolish ambition to be independent, and this is at the bottom of sinners' persisting in their sin. We may all discern some features of our own characters in that of the prodigal son. A sinful state is of departure and distance from God. A sinful state is a spending state: wilful sinners misemploy their thoughts and the powers of their souls, mispend their time and all their opportunities. A sinful state is a wanting state. Sinners want necessaries for their souls; they have neither food nor raiment for them, nor any provision for hereafter. A sinful state is a vile, slavish state. The business of the devil's servants is to make provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof, and that is no better than feeding swine. A sinful state is a state constant discontent. The wealth of the world and the pleasures of the senses will not even satisfy our bodies; but what are they to precious souls! A sinful state is a state which cannot look for relief from any creature. In vain do we cry to the world and to the flesh; they have that which will poison a soul, but have nothing to give which will feed and nourish it. A sinful state is a state of death. A sinner is dead in trespasses and sins, destitute of spiritual life. A sinful state is a lost state. Souls that are separated from God, if his mercy prevent not, will soon be lost for ever. The prodigal's wretched state, only faintly shadows forth the awful ruin of man by sin. Yet how few are sensible of their own state and character!

CONC:

Abroad Afterwards Debauchery Dissipated Distant Estate Excess Far-away Foolish Gathered Gathering Got Journey Later Loose Money Property Riotous Riotously Scattered Squandered Substance Traveled Travelled Wasted Wealth Wild Younger

Afterwards Country Debauchery Distant Estate Far Far-Away Foolish Gathered Gathering Journey Later Money Property Riotous Squandered Substance Time Together Traveled Travelled Wasted Wealth Wild Younger

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