Luke 15:15 Cross References - MNT

¹⁵ "So he went and hired to one of the citizens of that land, who sent him out into the fields to feed swine.

³² Now there was a great herd of swine feeding on the hillside, and the demons begged him to give them leave to enter them. He gave them leave. ³³ The demons came out of the man, and entered into the swine; the herd rushed violently down over the cliff into the lake. ³⁴ And those who saw what had happened fled and reported it in the town and the villages.

¹³ "Not many days after that the younger son gathered everything together and took his journey into a distant country; and there he wasted his money on living unsavingly.

²⁴ So God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their own bodies; ²⁵ because they exchanged the truth of God for an untruth, and worshiped and served the creature, rather than the Creator who is blessed forever. Amen. ²⁶ That is why God has given them up to passions of dishonor; for on the one hand their women actually changed the natural function of sex into that which is against nature;

²² But now that you have been set free from sin and become slaves of God, the harvest-fruit which you are reaping tends to produce holiness, and it ends is life eternal.

⁹ Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. None who are immoral, or idolaters, or adulterers, or catamites, or sodomites, ¹⁰ or thieves, or avaricious men, or drunkards, or foul-mouthed men, or extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ Such were some of you, but you have washed away your stains, you have been consecrated, you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

² in which you passed your lives after the way of this world, under the sway of the Prince of the Powers of the Air, the spirit who is now working among the sons of disobedience. ³ And among them we all once passed our lives, indulging the passions of our flesh, carrying out the dictates of our senses and temperament, and were by nature the children of wrath like all the rest.

¹⁷ This then I tell you and implore you in the Master's name, to pass your lives no longer as the Gentiles do in the perverseness of their minds; ¹⁸ having their understanding darkened, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts. ¹⁹ These being past feeling have given themselves over to sensuality, in order to practise every form of impurity with greedy zest.

¹¹ and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness, but rather expose them. ¹² For it is a shame even to speak of the things that are done by such men in secret;

⁵ So slay your baser inclinations. fornication, impurity, appetite, unnatural desires, and the greed which is idolatry. ⁶ These things are ever bringing down the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience, ⁷ among whom you once led your daily life when you lived in them.

²⁵ He must be gentle when instructing opponents; for possibly God may give them a change of mind for the recognition of the truth, ²⁶ and they may come to their senses again, and escape the snare of the devil, as they are restored to life by God to do his will.

³ For we were ourselves once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, passing our lives in malice and envy. We were hateful, and we hated one another.

²¹ I have given her time for repentance; but she is determined not to turn from her immorality. ²² Behold, I will lay her on a sick bed, and bring great distress upon those who have committed adultery with her, unless they turn away from her works.