Devine Scripture

Luke 15:12

Luke chapter 15 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion ofthy substance that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion ofthy substance that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.

Context

v.11And he said, A certain man had two sons:

v.12This passage

v.13And 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.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 17:14

    From men by thy hand, O Jehovah, From men of the world, whose portion is inthislife, And whose belly thou fillest with thy treasure: They are satisfied with children, And leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

  • Mark 12:44

    for they all did cast in of their superfluity; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.

  • Luke 15:30

    but when this thy son came, who hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou killedst for him the fatted calf.

  • Deuteronomy 21:16

    then it shall be, in the day that he causeth his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved the first-born before the son of the hated, who is the first-born: