13And 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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.
He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. …
Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-32)We have here the parable of the prodigal son, the scope of which is the same with those before, to show how pleasing to God the conversion of sinners is, of great sinners, and how ready he is to receive and entertain such, upon their repentance; but the circumstances of the parable do much more largely and fully set forth the riches of gospel grace than those did, and it has been, and will be whil…
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