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And 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.
¶ Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth [his] substance.
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?
¶ He that loveth pleasure [shall be] a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
¶ Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
¶ Whoso keepeth the law [is] a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous [men] shameth his father.
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these [things] God will bring thee into judgment.
Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth [are] vanity.
But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
¶ There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
¶ And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to [fulfil] the lusts [thereof].
For the time past of [our] life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
¶ Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of [you]:
For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
¶ He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
Yet he filled their houses with good [things]: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
What [is] the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Come ye, [say they], I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, [and] much more abundant.
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
¶ As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so [is] a man that wandereth from his place.
For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that [it is] an evil [thing] and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear [is] not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek [after God]: God [is] not in all his thoughts.
He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for [I shall] never [be] in adversity.
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
¶ Manasseh [was] twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.
¶ [There is] treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.
Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.
O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.
Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, [as] they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots [they are] and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
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