Luke 15
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Luke 15:25-31

25“Now his older son was in the field; and when he returned and approached the house, he heard music and dancing.

26So he summoned one of the servants and began asking what this [celebration] meant.

27And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has received him back safe and sound.’

28But the elder brother became angry and deeply resentful and was not willing to go in; and his father came out and began pleading with him.

29But he said to his father, ‘Look! These many years I have served you, and I have never neglected or disobeyed your command. Yet you have never given me [so much as] a young goat, so that I might celebrate with my friends;

30but when this [other] son of yours arrived, who has devoured your estate with immoral women, you slaughtered that fattened calf for him!’

31The father said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.

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