Luke 15:24 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁴ for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to make merry.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ Because this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found! And they began to revel and feast and make merry.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

Common English Bible

²⁴ because this son of mine was dead and has come back to life! He was lost and is found!’ And they began to celebrate.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ For this son of mine was dead, and has revived; he was lost, and is found.' And they began to feast.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ Because this my son was dead, and is come to life again: was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

Luke 15:24 Cross References

Genesis 45:28

and Israel said, “It is enough; Joseph my son is still alive; I will go and see him before I die.”

Isaiah 35:10

And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Isaiah 66:11

that you may suck and be satisfied with her consoling breasts; that you may drink deeply with delight from the abundance of her glory.”

Ezekiel 34:16

I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the crippled, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will watch over; I will feed them in justice.

Ezekiel 34:4

The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the crippled you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them.

Matthew 8:22

But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”

Mark 8:22

And they came to Beth-saida. And some people brought to him a blind man, and begged him to touch him.

Luke 10:19

Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing shall hurt you.

Luke 15:23

and bring the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry;

Luke 15:25

“Now his elder son was in the field; and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

Luke 15:32

It was fitting to make merry and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.’ ”

Luke 15:4

“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost, until he finds it?

Luke 19:10

For the Son of man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Luke 9:60

But he said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”

John 11:25

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,

John 5:21

For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.

Romans 11:15

For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?

Romans 12:15

Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

Romans 6:11

So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Romans 6:13

Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but yield yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.

Romans 8:2

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.

1 Corinthians 12:26

If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.

Ephesians 2:1

And you he made alive, when you were dead through the trespasses and sins

Ephesians 2:5

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

Ephesians 5:14

Therefore it is said, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.”

Colossians 2:13

And you, who were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

1 Timothy 5:6

whereas she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives.

Jude 1:12

These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they boldly carouse together, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;

Revelation 3:1

“And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: ‘The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. “ ‘I know your works; you have the name of being alive, and you are dead.