Verse 24

because this my son was dead, and did live again, and he was lost, and was found; and they began to be merry.

Referenced Verses

  • Luke 15:32 : 32 but to be merry, and to be glad, it was needful, because this thy brother was dead, and did live again, he was lost, and was found.'
  • Eph 2:1 : 1 Also you -- being dead in the trespasses and the sins,
  • Eph 2:5 : 5 even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,)
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 wherefore he saith, `Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.'
  • Col 2:13 : 13 And you -- being dead in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh -- He made alive together with him, having forgiven you all the trespasses,
  • 1 Tim 5:6 : 6 and she who is given to luxury, living -- hath died;
  • Rom 8:2 : 2 for the law of the Spirit of the life in Christ Jesus did set me free from the law of the sin and of the death;
  • Rev 3:1 : 1 And to the messenger of the assembly in Sardis write: These things saith he who is having the Seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I have known thy works, and that thou hast the name that thou dost live, and thou art dead;
  • Luke 19:10 : 10 for the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.'
  • Luke 15:4 : 4 `What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one out of them, doth not leave behind the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go on after the lost one, till he may find it?
  • Rom 6:11 : 11 so also ye, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to the sin, and living to God in Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • Ezek 34:16 : 16 The lost I seek, and the driven away bring back, And the broken I bind up, and the sick I strengthen, And the fat and the strong I destroy, I feed it with judgment.
  • Matt 18:10-13 : 10 `Beware! -- ye may not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their messengers in the heavens do always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens, 11 for the Son of Man did come to save the lost. 12 `What think ye? if a man may have an hundred sheep, and there may go astray one of them, doth he not -- having left the ninety-nine, having gone on the mountains -- seek that which is gone astray? 13 and if it may come to pass that he doth find it, verily I say to you, that he doth rejoice over it more than over the ninety-nine that have not gone astray;
  • Mark 8:22 : 22 And he cometh to Bethsaida, and they bring to him one blind, and call upon him that he may touch him,
  • Luke 10:19 : 19 lo, I give to you the authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and on all the power of the enemy, and nothing by any means shall hurt you;
  • Gen 45:28 : 28 and Israel saith, `Enough! Joseph my son `is' yet alive; I go and see him before I die.'
  • Isa 35:10 : 10 And the ransomed of Jehovah return, And have entered Zion with singing. And joy age-during on their head, Joy and gladness they attain, And fled away have sorrow and sighing!
  • Isa 66:11 : 11 So that ye suck, and have been satisfied, From the breast of her consolations, So that ye wring out, and have delighted yourselves From the abundance of her honour.
  • Jer 31:12-17 : 12 And they have come in, And have sung in the high place of Zion, And flowed unto the goodness of Jehovah, For wheat, and for new wine, and for oil, And for the young of the flock and herd, And their soul hath been as a watered garden, And they add not to grieve any more. 13 Then rejoice doth a virgin in a chorus, Both young men and old men -- together, And I have turned their mourning to joy, And have comforted them, And gladdened them above their sorrow, 14 And satisfied the soul of the priests `with' fatness, And My people with My goodness are satisfied, An affirmation of Jehovah. 15 Thus said Jehovah, A voice in Ramah is heard, wailing, weeping most bitter, Rachel is weeping for her sons, She hath refused to be comforted for her sons, because they are not. 16 Thus said Jehovah: Withhold thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears, For there is a reward for thy work, An affirmation of Jehovah, And they have turned back from the land of the enemy. 17 And there is hope for thy latter end, An affirmation of Jehovah, And the sons have turned back `to' their border.
  • Ezek 34:4 : 4 The weak ye have not strengthened, And the sick one ye have not healed, And the broken ye have not bound up, And the driven away have not brought back, And the lost ye have not sought, And with might ye have ruled them and with rigour.
  • Rom 6:13 : 13 neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;
  • Luke 15:7-9 : 7 `I say to you, that so joy shall be in the heaven over one sinner reforming, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men, who have no need of reformation. 8 `Or what woman having ten drachms, if she may lose one drachm, doth not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek carefully till that she may find? 9 and having found, she doth call together the female friends and the neighbours, saying, Rejoice with me, for I found the drachm that I lost.
  • John 5:21 : 21 `For, as the Father doth raise the dead, and doth make alive, so also the Son doth make alive whom he willeth;
  • John 5:24-25 : 24 `Verily, verily, I say to you -- He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life. 25 `Verily, verily, I say to you -- There cometh an hour, and it now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those having heard shall live;
  • John 11:25 : 25 Jesus said to her, `I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live;
  • Rom 11:15 : 15 for if the casting away of them `is' a reconciliation of the world, what the reception -- if not life out of the dead?
  • Rom 12:15 : 15 to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping,
  • 1 Cor 12:26 : 26 and whether one member doth suffer, suffer with `it' do all the members, or one member is glorified, rejoice with `it' do all the members;
  • 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died, 15 and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.
  • Jude 1:12 : 12 These are in your love-feasts craggy rocks; feasting together with you, without fear shepherding themselves; clouds without water, by winds carried about; trees autumnal, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;