“Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Luke 15 contains 32 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.