Luke 15:16

Luke 15:16
And so great was his need that he would have been glad to take the pigs' food, and no one gave him anything.

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Genesis 47:12
And Joseph took care of his father and his brothers and all his father's people, giving them food for the needs of their families.

Deuteronomy 21:18
If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment:

Deuteronomy 21:19
Then let his father and mother take him to the responsible men of the town, to the public place;

Deuteronomy 21:20
And say to them, This son of ours is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, he will not give attention to us; he gives himself up to pleasure and strong drink.

Deuteronomy 21:21
Then he is to be stoned to death by all the men of the town: so you are to put away the evil from among you; and all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear.

Proverbs 10:1
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

Proverbs 17:25
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.

Proverbs 19:26
He who is violent to his father, driving away his mother, is a son causing shame and a bad name.

Proverbs 23:22
Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.

Proverbs 23:23
Get for yourself that which is true, and do not let it go for money; get wisdom and teaching and good sense.

Proverbs 23:24
The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him.

Proverbs 23:25
Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.

Proverbs 28:14
Happy is the man in whom is the fear of the Lord at all times; but he whose heart is hard will come into trouble.

Proverbs 30:11
There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.

Proverbs 30:17
The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.

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Exodus 2:23
Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God.

Exodus 5:18
Go now, get back to your work; no dry stems will be given to you, but you are to make the full number of bricks.

Exodus 5:19
Then the responsible men of the children of Israel saw that they were purposing evil when they said, The number of bricks which you have to make every day will be no less than before.

Judges 10:16
So they put away the strange gods from among them, and became the Lord's servants; and his soul was angry because of the sorrows of Israel.

Judges 10:17
Then the children of Ammon came together and put their army in position in Gilead. And the children of Israel came together and put their army in position in Mizpah.

Judges 10:18
And the people of Israel said to one another, Who will be the first to make an attack on the children of Ammon? We will make him head over all Gilead.

Judges 16:21
So the Philistines took him and put out his eyes; then they took him down to Gaza, and, chaining him with bands of brass, put him to work crushing grain in the prison-house.

Judges 16:30
And Samson said, Let death overtake me with the Philistines. And he put out all his strength, and the house came down on the chiefs and on all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he sent to destruction by his death were more than all those on whom he had sent destruction in his life.

Nehemiah 9:37
And it gives much increase to the kings whom you have put over us because of our sins: and they have power over our bodies and over our cattle at their pleasure, and we are in great trouble.

Psalms 107:12
So that he made their hearts weighted down with grief; they were falling, and had no helper.

Isaiah 51:19
These two things have come on you; who will be weeping for you? wasting and destruction; death from need of food, and from the sword; how may you be comforted?

Isaiah 51:20
Your sons are overcome, like a roe in a net; they are full of the wrath of the Lord, the punishment of your God.

Isaiah 51:23
And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you; who have said to your soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for them to go over.

Isaiah 52:5
Now then, what have I here? says the Lord, for my people are taken away without cause; they are made waste and give cries of sorrow, says the Lord, and all the day the nations put shame on my name.

Lamentations 5:5
Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.

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Leviticus 26:39
And those of you who are still living will be wasting away in their sins in the land of your haters; in the sins of their fathers they will be wasting away.

Leviticus 26:40
And they will have grief for their sins and for the sins of their fathers, when their hearts were untrue to me, and they went against me;

Leviticus 26:41
So that I went against them and sent them away into the land of their haters: if then the pride of their hearts is broken and they take the punishment of their sins,

Leviticus 26:42
Then I will keep in mind the agreement which I made with Jacob and with Isaac and with Abraham, and I will keep in mind the land.

2 Chronicles 28:22
And in the time of his trouble, this same King Ahaz did even more evil against the Lord.

2 Chronicles 33:11
So the Lord sent against them the captains of the army of Assyria, who made Manasseh a prisoner and took him away in chains to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 33:13
And made prayer to him; and in answer to his prayer God let him come back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh was certain that the Lord was God.

Jeremiah 31:18
Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God.

Jeremiah 31:19
Truly, after I had been turned, I had regret for my ways; and after I had got knowledge, I made signs of sorrow: I was put to shame, truly, I was covered with shame, because I had to undergo the shame of my early years.

Jeremiah 31:20
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he the child of my delight? for whenever I say things against him, I still keep him in my memory: so my heart is troubled for him; I will certainly have mercy on him, says the Lord.

Hosea 5:15
I will go back to my place till they are made waste; in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.

Micah 6:9
The voice of the Lord is crying out to the town: Give ear, you tribes and the meeting of the town.

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Numbers 6:4
All the time he is separate he may take nothing made from the grape-vine, from its seeds to its skin.

2 Kings 4:42
Now a man came from Baal-shalishah with an offering of first-fruits for the man of God, twenty barley cakes and garden fruit in his bag. And he said, Give these to the people for food.

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Deuteronomy 23:16
Let him go on living among you in whatever place is most pleasing to him: do not be hard on him.

Isaiah 16:3
Give wise directions, make a decision; let your shade be as night in full day: keep safe those who are in flight; do not give up the wandering ones.

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1 Kings 4:20
Judah and Israel were as great in number as the sand by the seaside, and they took their food and drink with joy in their hearts.

1 Kings 4:21
And Solomon was ruler over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the edge of Egypt; men gave him offerings and were his servants all the days of his life.

Psalms 68:13
Will you take your rest among the flocks? like the wings of a dove covered with silver, and its feathers with yellow gold.

Psalms 74:19
O give not the soul of your dove to the hawk; let not the life of the poor go out of your memory for ever.

Psalms 105:37
He took his people out with silver and gold: there was not one feeble person among them.

Psalms 149:4
For the Lord has pleasure in his people: he gives the poor in spirit a crown of salvation.

Ezekiel 16:6
And when I went past you and saw you stretched out in your blood, I said to you, Though you are stretched out in your blood, have life;

Ezekiel 16:7
And be increased in number like the buds of the field; and you were increased and became great, and you came to the time of love: your breasts were formed and your hair was long; but you were uncovered and without clothing.

Ezekiel 16:8
Now when I went past you, looking at you, I saw that your time was the time of love; and I put my skirts over you, covering your unclothed body: and I gave you my oath and made an agreement with you, says the Lord, and you became mine.

Ezekiel 16:9
Then I had you washed with water, washing away all your blood and rubbing you with oil.

Ezekiel 16:10
And I had you clothed with needlework, and put leather shoes on your feet, folding fair linen about you and covering you with silk.

Ezekiel 16:11
And I made you fair with ornaments and put jewels on your hands and a chain on your neck.

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2 Kings 4:38
And Elisha went back to Gilgal, now there was very little food in the land; and the sons of the prophets were seated before him. And he said to his servant, Put the great pot on the fire, and make soup for the sons of the prophets.

2 Kings 4:39
And one went out into the field to get green plants and saw a vine of the field, and pulling off the fruit of it till the fold of his robe was full, he came back and put the fruit, cut up small, into the pot of soup, having no idea what it was.

Amos 7:14
Then Amos in answer said to Amaziah, I am no prophet, or one of the sons of the prophets; I am a herdman and one who takes care of sycamore-trees:

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Job 15:2
Will a wise man make answer with knowledge of no value, or will he give birth to the east wind?

Psalms 102:9
I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:

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Job 20:28
The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath.

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Psalms 73:22
As for me, I was foolish, and without knowledge; I was like a beast before you.

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Proverbs 12:8
A man will be praised in the measure of his wisdom, but a wrong-minded man will be looked down on.

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Proverbs 5:10
And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;

Proverbs 5:11
And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;

Proverbs 21:17
The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.

Proverbs 21:20
There is a store of great value in the house of the wise, but it is wasted by the foolish man.

Matthew 3:4
Now John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather band about him; and his food was locusts and honey.

Luke 16:24
And he gave a cry and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, so that he may put the end of his finger in water and put it on my tongue, for I am cruelly burning in this flame.

Luke 16:25
But Abraham said, Keep in mind, my son, that when you were living, you had your good things, while Lazarus had evil things: but now, he is comforted and you are in pain.

1 Timothy 5:6
But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she is living.

2 Timothy 3:4
False to their friends, acting without thought, lifted up in mind, loving pleasure more than God;

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Judges 9:4
And they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the house of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech got the support of a number of uncontrolled and good-for-nothing persons.

Job 30:4
They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.

Proverbs 13:20
Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.

Proverbs 15:14
The heart of the man of good sense goes in search of knowledge, but foolish things are the food of the unwise.

Proverbs 23:20
Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:

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Proverbs 26:10
Like an archer wounding all who go by, is a foolish man overcome by drink.

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Song of Solomon 1:6
Let not your eyes be turned on me, because I am dark, because I was looked on by the sun; my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vine-gardens; but my vine-garden I have not kept.

Isaiah 9:13
But the heart of the people was not turned to him who sent punishment on them, and they made no prayer to the Lord of armies.

Isaiah 65:2
All day my hands have been stretched out to an uncontrolled people, who go in an evil way, after the purposes of their hearts;

Jeremiah 2:13
For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.

Jeremiah 2:19
The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing to give up the Lord your God, and no longer to be moved by fear of me, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.

Jeremiah 3:1
They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, will he go back to her again? will not that land have been made unclean? but though you have been acting like a loose woman with a number of lovers, will you now come back to me? says the Lord.

Zechariah 1:3
And you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord of armies: Come back to me, says the Lord of armies, and I will come back to you.

Malachi 3:7
From the days of your fathers you have been turned away from my rules and have not kept them. Come back to me, and I will come back to you, says the Lord of armies. But you say, How are we to come back?

Malachi 3:13
Your words have been strong against me, says the Lord. And still you say, What have we said against you?

Matthew 21:28
But how does it seem to you? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go and do work today in the vine-garden.

Matthew 23:27
A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you are like the resting-places of the dead, which are made white, and seem beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all unclean things.

Romans 10:21
But about Israel he says; All the day my hands have been stretched out to a people whose hearts were turned away, and who put themselves against my word.

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Isaiah 16:4
Let those who have been forced out of Moab have a resting-place with you; be a cover to them from him who is making waste their land: till the cruel ones are cut off, and wasting has come to an end, and those who take pleasure in crushing the poor are gone from the land.

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Leviticus 11:7
And the pig is unclean to you, because though the horn of its foot is parted, its food does not come back.

Proverbs 12:26
The upright man is a guide to his neighbour, but the way of evil-doers is a cause of error to them.

Isaiah 65:3
A people who make me angry every day, making offerings in gardens, and burning perfumes on bricks.

Isaiah 66:17
As for those who keep themselves separate, and make themselves clean in the gardens, going after one in the middle, taking pig's flesh for food, and other disgusting things, such as the mouse: their works and their thoughts will come to an end together, says the Lord.

Matthew 8:30
Now there was, some distance away, a great herd of pigs taking their food.

Mark 5:11
Now on the mountain side there was a great herd of pigs getting their food.

Luke 8:32
Now there was a great herd of pigs in that place, getting food on the mountain: and the evil spirits made a request to him that he would let them go into the pigs, and he let them.

2 Peter 2:22
They are an example of that true saying, The dog has gone back to the food it had put out, and the pig which had been washed to its rolling in the dirty earth.

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Jeremiah 9:21
For death has come up into our windows, forcing its way into our great houses; cutting off the children in the streets and the young men in the wide places.

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Jeremiah 9:22
The bodies of men will be falling like waste on the open fields, and like grain dropped by the grain-cutter, and no one will take them up.

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Job 3:23
To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?

Job 19:8
My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

Jeremiah 30:14
Your lovers have no more thought for you, they go after you no longer; for I have given you the wound of a hater, even cruel punishment;

Lamentations 3:7
He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.

Lamentations 3:8
Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.

Lamentations 3:9
He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.

Hosea 2:6
For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.

Hosea 2:7
And if she goes after her lovers she will not overtake them; if she makes search for them she will not see them; then will she say, I will go back to my first husband, for then it was better for me than now.

Luke 19:43
For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side,

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Lamentations 5:6
We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.

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Ezekiel 16:12
And I put a ring in your nose and ear-rings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.

Ezekiel 16:13
So you were made beautiful with gold and silver; and your clothing was of the best linen and silk and needlework; your food was the best meal and honey and oil: and you were very beautiful.

Ezekiel 16:14
You were so beautiful that the story of you went out into all nations; you were completely beautiful because of my glory which I had put on you, says the Lord.

Ephesians 5:26
So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word,

Ephesians 5:27
And might take it for himself, a church full of glory, not having one mark or fold or any such thing; but that it might be holy and complete.

Revelation 1:5
And from Jesus Christ, the true witness, the first to come back from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who had love for us and has made us clean from our sins by his blood;

Revelation 1:6
And has made us to be a kingdom and priests to his God and Father; to him let glory and power be given for ever and ever. So be it.

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Hosea 8:2
They will send up to me a cry for help: We, Israel, have knowledge of you, O God of Israel.

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2 Chronicles 12:7
And the Lord, seeing that they had made themselves low, said to Shemaiah, They have made themselves low: I will not send destruction on them, but in a short time I will give them salvation, and will not let loose my wrath on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

2 Chronicles 12:8
But still they will become his servants, so that they may see how different my yoke is from the yoke of the kingdoms of the lands.

Proverbs 13:5
The upright man is a hater of false words: the evil-doer gets a bad name and is put to shame.

Song of Solomon 2:3
As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my loved one among the sons. I took my rest under his shade with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

Isaiah 57:17
I was quickly angry with his evil ways, and sent punishment on him, veiling my face in wrath: and he went on, turning his heart from me.

Jeremiah 2:27
Who say to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have given me life: for their backs have been turned to me, not their faces: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Up! and be our saviour.

Jeremiah 2:30
I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.

Jeremiah 4:1
If you will come back, O Israel, says the Lord, you will come back to me: and if you will put away your disgusting ways, you will not be sent away from before me.

Jeremiah 5:3
O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.

Hosea 14:1
O Israel, come back to the Lord your God; for your evil-doing has been the cause of your fall.

Hosea 14:2
Take with you words, and come back to the Lord; say to him, Let there be forgiveness for all wrongdoing, so that we may take what is good, and give in payment the fruit of our lips.

Malachi 1:6
A son gives honour to his father, and a servant has fear of his master: if then I am a father, where is my honour? and if I am a master, where is the fear of me? says the Lord of armies to you, O priests, who give no value to my name. And you say, How have we not given value to your name?

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Isaiah 57:3
But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.

Jonah 2:2
In my trouble I was crying to the Lord, and he gave me an answer; out of the deepest underworld I sent up a cry, and you gave ear to my voice.

Jonah 2:3
For you have put me down into the deep, into the heart of the sea; and the river was round about me; all your waves and your rolling waters went over me.

Jonah 2:4
And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple?

Jonah 2:5
The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.

Jonah 2:6
I went down to the bases of the mountains; as for the earth, her walls were about me for ever: but you have taken up my life from the underworld, O Lord my God.

Jonah 2:7
When my soul in me was overcome, I kept the memory of the Lord: and my prayer came in to you, into your holy Temple.

Jonah 2:8
The worshippers of false gods have given up their only hope.

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Matthew 5:10
Happy are those who are attacked on account of righteousness: for the kingdom of heaven will be theirs.

Matthew 5:11
Happy are you when men give you a bad name, and are cruel to you, and say all evil things against you falsely, because of me.

Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him give up all, and take up his cross, and come after me.

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Matthew 15:17
Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth goes on into the stomach, and is sent out as waste?

Mark 7:19
Because it goes not into the heart but into the stomach, and goes out with the waste? He said this, making all food clean.

Philippians 3:17
Brothers, take me as your example, and take note of those who are walking after the example we have given.

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Luke 8:16
No man, when the light is lighted, puts a cover over it, or puts it under a bed, but he puts it on its table, so that those who come in may see the light.

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Luke 17:22
And he said to his disciples, The time will come when you will have a great desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, but you will not see it.

Luke 22:15
And he said, I have had a great desire to keep this Passover with you before I come to my death;

1 Thessalonians 2:17
But we, my brothers, being away from you for a short time, in body but not in heart, had all the more desire to see your face;

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John 6:9
There is a boy here with five barley cakes and two fishes: but what is that among such a number?

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Isaiah 40:11
He will give food to his flock like a keeper of sheep; with his arm he will get it together, and will take up the lambs on his breast, gently guiding those which are with young.

Hosea 3:2
So I got her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a half of barley;

John 8:34
And this was the answer Jesus gave them: Truly I say to you, Everyone who does evil is the servant of sin.

Romans 6:19
I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.

Romans 6:20
When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.

Romans 6:21
What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.

Titus 3:2
To say no evil of any man, not to be fighters, to give way to others, to be gentle in behaviour to all men.

Titus 3:3
For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

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Hosea 8:7
For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.

Habakkuk 2:13
See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?

Matthew 15:9
But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

Luke 15:7
I say to you that even so there will be more joy in heaven when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing, than for ninety-nine good men, who have no need of a change of heart.

Romans 7:9
And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death;

Romans 9:31
But Israel, going after a law of righteousness, did not get it.

Romans 10:2
For I give witness of them that they have a strong desire for God, but not with knowledge.

Philippians 3:4
Even though I myself might have faith in the flesh: if any other man has reason to have faith in the flesh, I have more:

Philippians 3:5
Being given circumcision on the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in relation to the law, a Pharisee:

Philippians 3:6
In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.

Philippians 3:7
But those things which were profit to me, I gave up for Christ.

Hebrews 13:9
Do not be turned away by different strange teachings, because it is good for your hearts to be made strong by grace, and not by meats, which were of no profit to those who took so much trouble over them.

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