Luke 15:32 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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.’ ”

More versions

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

Fill me with joy and gladness; let the bones which thou hast broken rejoice.

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.

Hosea 14:9

Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the Lord are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.

Matthew 18:11

Luke 15:24

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

Luke 15:31

And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.

Luke 7:34

The Son of man has come eating and drinking; and you say, ‘Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

Romans 11:15

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

Romans 3:19

Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

Romans 3:4

By no means! Let God be true though every man be false, as it is written, “That thou mayest be justified in thy words, and prevail when thou art judged.”