Luke 15:30
Good News Translation
But this son of yours wasted all your property on prostitutes, and when he comes back home, you kill the prize calf for him!'

New Revised Standard Version
But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fatted calf for him!’

Contemporary English Version
This other son of yours wasted your money on prostitutes. And now that he has come home, you ordered the best calf to be killed for a feast."

New American Bible
But when your son returns who swallowed up your property with prostitutes, for him you slaughter the fattened calf.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
But as soon as this thy son is come, who hath devoured his substance with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But as soon as this thy son is come, who hath devoured his substance with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

this.

Luke 15:32 But it was fit that we should make merry and be glad: for this thy brother was dead and is come to life again; he was lost, and is found.

Luke 18:11 The Pharisee standing, prayed thus with himself: O God, I give thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, as also is this publican.

Exodus 32:7,11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Go, get thee down: thy people, which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, hath sinned. . . .

devoured.

Luke 15:13,22,23 And not many days after, the younger son, gathering all together, went abroad into a far country: and there wasted his substance, living riotously. . . .

Context
The Parable of the Prodigal Son
29And he answering, said to his father: Behold, for so many years do I serve thee and I have never transgressed thy commandment: and yet thou hast never given me a kid to make merry with my friends. 30But as soon as this thy son is come, who hath devoured his substance with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf. 31But he said to him: Son, thou art always with me; and all I have is thine.…
Cross References
Proverbs 29:3
A man that loveth wisdom, rejoiceth his father: but he that maintaineth harlots, shall squander away his substance.

Mark 12:44
For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want cast in all she had, even her whole living.

Luke 15:12
And the younger of them said to his father: Father, give me the portion of substance that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his substance.

Luke 15:29
And he answering, said to his father: Behold, for so many years do I serve thee and I have never transgressed thy commandment: and yet thou hast never given me a kid to make merry with my friends.

Luke 15:31
But he said to him: Son, thou art always with me; and all I have is thine.

Luke 15:29
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