Page 1 (the younger son goes off)
Luke 15:13
“Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country...
Isaiah 53:6
We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Hosea 6:4
“What can I do with you, Ephraim? What can I do with you, Judah? Your love is like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears.
Page 2 (wasting away his life)
Luke 15:13
and there squandered his wealth in wild living.
Romans 1:24
Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.
James 4:4
You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
Page 3 (the man tending to the pigs)
Luke 15:15-16
So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.
Hosea 8:7
They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no head; it will produce no flour. Were it to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it up.
Galatians 6:7
Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.
Page 4 (the son asking for forgiveness)
Luke 15:21
The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
2 Chronicles 7:14
"If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sins and will heal their land.
Page 5 (a grand feast to celebrate his return)
Luke 15:24
For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.
Psalm 32:1
Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
Romans 5:1-2
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God.
