Cross references

Luke 15:16

He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.

Luke 15:16 BSB

Luke 15:16 has 9 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Romans 6:19–21 (4 votes) and Hosea 12:1 (3 votes). 22 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Deuteronomy 14 to Romans 6.

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Which verses does Luke 15:16 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness. For when you were slaves to sin, you were free of obligation to righteousness. …

  2. Hosea 12:13 votes

    Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; he multiplies lies and violence; he makes a covenant with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.

  3. I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before You.

  4. Look to my right and see; no one attends to me. There is no refuge for me; no one cares for my soul.

  5. He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”

  6. Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.

  7. “But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!

  8. Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.

  9. saying: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You heard my voice. For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me. …

Which verses point to Luke 15:16?

The 10 strongest of 22.