Luke 15:32 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

³² And the lord commended the unjust steward, forasmuch as he had done wisely: for the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³² It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³² But it was fitting to make merry, to revel and feast and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and is alive again! He was lost and is found!

American Standard Version (1901)

³² But it was meet to make merry and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

Common English Bible

³² But we had to celebrate and be glad because this brother of yours was dead and is alive. He was lost and is found.’”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³² But it was necessary to feast and to rejoice. For this brother of yours was dead, and has revived; he was lost, and is found.' "

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³² But it was fit that we should make merry and be glad, for this thy brother was dead and is come to life again; he was lost, and is found.

Luke 15:32 Cross References

Psalm 51:8

5 O Lord, thou wilt open my lips: and my mouth shall declare thy praise.

Isaiah 35:10

And now deliver thyself up to my lord the king of the Assyrians, and I will give thee two thousand horses, and thou wilt not be able on thy part to find riders for them.

Hosea 14:9

Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Matthew 18:11

9 Again I say to you, that if two of you shall consent upon earth, concerning any thing whatsoever they shall ask, it shall be done to them by my Father who is in heaven.

Luke 15:24

2 But it was fit that we should make merry and be glad, for this thy brother was dead and is come to life again; he was lost, and is found.

Luke 15:31

Then he said to another: And how much dost thou owe? Who said: An hundred quarters of wheat. He said to him: Take thy bill, and write eighty.

Luke 7:34

2 And whereas they had not wherewith to pay, he forgave them both. Which therefore of the two loveth him most?

Romans 11:15

3 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.

Romans 3:19

7 Where is then thy boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.

Romans 3:4

2 All have turned out of the way; they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good, there is not so much as one.