Luke 15:13 Cross References - MKJV

¹³ And not many days afterward, the younger son gathered all together and went away into a far country. And there he wasted his property, living dissolutely.

¹ Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. ² But he did the evil in the sight of Jehovah, like the abominations of the heathen whom Jehovah had cast out before the sons of Israel. ³ For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for the Baals, and made Asherahs, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them. ⁴ And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem shall My name be forever. ⁵ And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of Jehovah. ⁶ And he caused his sons to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom. He also practiced secret arts, and used fortune-telling, and used witchcraft, and dealt with mediums, and with soothsayers. He did much evil in the sight of Jehovah in order to provoke Him to anger. ⁷ And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever. ⁸ Nor will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have set apart for your fathers; only if they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses. ⁹ And Manasseh made Judah and the people of Jerusalem to err, to do worse than the nations whom Jehovah had destroyed before the sons of Israel. ¹⁰ And Jehovah spoke to Manasseh and to His people, but they would not listen.

¹³ They spend their days in good, and in a moment go down to the grave. ¹⁴ And they say to God, Depart from us; for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways; ¹⁵ what is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit should we have if we pray to Him?

¹⁷ who said to God, Depart from us; and, What can the Almighty do to them? ¹⁸ Yet He filled their houses with substance; and the wisdom of the wicked is far from me.

⁴ Through the pride of his face the wicked will not seek Him; There is no God in all his schemes. ⁵ His ways are always perverted; Your judgments are high, out of his sight. As for all his enemies, he puffs at them. ⁶ He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved; from generation to generation, never in evil!

²⁷ For lo, those who are far from You shall perish; You have destroyed all who go lusting away from You.

⁸ Remove your ways far from her, and do not come near the door of her house, ⁹ lest you give your honor to others and your years to the cruel; ¹⁰ that strangers not be filled with your strength, and your labors be in the house of a stranger; ¹¹ and you moan when your end comes, when your flesh and muscle are eaten away, ¹² and say, How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised correction; ¹³ and I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor bowed down my ears to those who taught me! ¹⁴ I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

²⁶ For by means of a harlot a man comes to a piece of bread; and another man's wife will hunt for the precious life.

⁹ Also he who is slack in his work is brother to a great destroyer.

¹⁷ He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

²⁰ A desirable treasure and oil are in the home of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.

¹⁹ My son, hear and be wise, and guide your heart in the way. ²⁰ Do not be among those who drink much wine, among gluttons for flesh for themselves, ²¹ for the drunkard and the glutton lose all, and sleepiness shall clothe a man with rags. ²² Listen to your father who sired you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

⁸ As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his place.

⁷ Whoever keeps the law is a wise son, but a companion of gluttons shames his father.

³ Whoever loves wisdom rejoices his father; but a companion of harlots wastes wealth.

⁹ Rejoice, in your youth, young man; and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment. ¹⁰ Therefore remove vexation from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for childhood and prime of life are vanity.

⁴ Woe, sinful nation, a people heavy with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, sons who corrupt! They have forsaken Jehovah; they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger; they have gone away backward.

¹³ Then, lo, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine, saying, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!

¹¹ go out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

¹² They say, come, Let us take wine, and let us gulp strong drink; and tomorrow shall be like today, and much more abundant.

⁵ So says Jehovah, What injustice have your fathers found in Me, that they have gone far from Me and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?

¹³ For My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of living waters, to hew out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.

¹⁷ Have you not brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Jehovah your God, when He led you by the way? ¹⁸ And now what is for you toward the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? Or what for you toward Assyria, to drink the waters of the River? ¹⁹ Your own evil shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you, therefore know and see that it is an evil and bitter thing that you have forsaken Jehovah your God, and that My fear is not in you, says the Lord Jehovah of Hosts.

³¹ O generation, see the Word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of darkness? Why do My people say, We roam freely; we will come no more to You?

³ You who put the evil day far away, and cause the seat of violence to come near; ⁴ who lie on beds of ivory, and those sprawling on their couches, and eat lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; ⁵ who chant with the mouth of the harp; they invent instruments of music for themselves, like David; ⁶ who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best of oils; nor do they grieve for the breaking of Joseph! ⁷ So now they shall go into exile with the first of the exiles. And the feast of those who stretch themselves shall cease.

³ O My people, what have I done to you? And in what have I made you weary? Testify against Me!

³⁰ But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your living with harlots, you have killed for him the fattened calf.

¹ And He also said to His disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward. And he was accused to him, that he had wasted his goods.

¹⁹ There was a certain rich man who was customarily clothed in purple and fine linen and making merry in luxury every day.

¹³ Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in carousings and drinking; not in co-habitation and lustful acts; not in strife and envy. ¹⁴ But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not take thought beforehand for the lusts of the flesh.

¹³ But now in Christ Jesus you who were once afar off are made near by the blood of Christ.

¹⁷ And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off, and to those who were near.

³ For the time of life which is past is enough for us to have worked out the will of the nations, having gone on in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, parties, carousings, and abominable idolatries. ⁴ In these things they are surprised, that you are not running with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.

¹³ being about to receive the wages of unrighteousness, deeming indulgence as pleasure in the daytime, and reveling in spots and blemishes, feasting along with you in their deceits,