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The younger one said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of the estate.' So he divided his property between them.

So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.

So he got up and went to his father. "But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.

For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.' So they began to celebrate.

So he called one of the servants and asked him what was going on.

"The older brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father went out and pleaded with him.

But he answered his father, 'Look! All these years I've been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

So he called him in and asked him, 'What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, because you cannot be manager any longer.'

I know what I'll do so that, when I lose my job here, people will welcome me into their houses.'

"So he called in each one of his master's debtors. He asked the first, 'How much do you owe my master?'

I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.

So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?

So he called to him, 'Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.'

And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.'

for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.'

So watch yourselves. "If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him.

So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, 'We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.' "

"Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man.

yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won't eventually wear me out with her coming!' "

So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way.