Luke 15:24

First Nations Version

This is my son! He was lost, but I have found him. He was dead to me, but now he is alive!’ Then they all began to feast, sing, and dance.

Cross References

Ephesians 2:5

raised us up from spiritual death. Even though we were walking the road of death, he made us alive again with the Chosen One. This is what it means to be rescued by the gift of his great kindness.

Colossians 2:13

You were spiritually dead because your weak human ways had not yet been cut away and because you were still following your bad hearts, walking in your broken ways. Even so the Great Spirit has made you spiritually alive along with the Chosen One by releasing you from all wrongdoings.

Luke 19:10

The True Human Being has come to find the ones who have lost their way and guide them back again to the good road.”

Ephesians 2:1

We all once walked a dark and crooked path that led us to death.

Luke 15:4

“Who among you, if you were caring for one hundred sheep and one of the lambs wandered away, would not leave the ninety-nine and search for that lost lamb until you found it?

Luke 15:32

But it is a good thing for us to celebrate with glad hearts, for your brother was dead but now is alive. He was lost, but now we have found him!’”

Romans 6:11

So think about yourselves in the same way, dead to broken ways and alive to the Great Spirit in harmony with the Chosen One Creator Sets Free (Jesus).

Romans 8:2

For the Chosen One, Creator Sets Free (Jesus), has brought the new law of the Spirit’s life to release us from the death sentence of our tribal law, given because of our bad hearts and broken ways.

Romans 12:15

Dance with the ones who dance for joy, and shed tears with the ones whose hearts have fallen to the ground.

John 11:25

“I am the rising from the dead and the life that follows,” he told her. “The ones who trust me will live again, even after death. Death will never be the end of the ones who are alive and trust in me. Do you believe what I am saying to you?”

Ephesians 5:14

This is why it is said, “Wake up, O sleeper, come back from the dead, and the Chosen One will shine on you!”

1 Corinthians 12:26

If one part of the body hurts, the whole body hurts. If one part of the body is honored, the whole body celebrates.

1 Timothy 5:6

But the ones who live only to please themselves are spiritually dead even while they live.

Romans 11:15

So think about it this way. If the turning away of our Tribal Members from the Great Spirit means that he then turned toward the rest of the world, to bring them back to himself, then what will it mean when our Tribal Members turn back to welcome him? It can only mean that they have come back to life from the dead!

Romans 6:13

So then, you should no longer permit broken ways to use your bodies for wrongdoing. Instead, as people whom the Great Spirit has raised from death to life, offer your bodies to him for doing what is right.

John 5:21

You will see the Son give life to whomever he wants and bring the dead back to life again—just like the Father does.

Mark 8:22

They walked on to the village of House of Fishing (Bethsaida). The people there brought a blind man to Creator Sets Free (Jesus) and begged him to touch him.

Revelation 3:1

“Write this to the messenger of the sacred family that gathers in the village of Safe Place (Sardis): These are the words of the one who has the seven spirits of the Great Mystery and the seven stars: I know what you have been doing. I know you have a reputation of being alive. But while others may see you as alive, I see you as dead.

Jude 1:12

These bad-hearted ones have no respect for the love you share when they feast with you at your sacred family gatherings. They are dark spots and stains on your gatherings, caring only for themselves. They are clouds with no rain, blown about by the winds. They are trees that have no fruit at the harvest moon. They are twice dead, with their roots plucked from the ground.

Luke 10:19

Look and see! I have given you authority over snakes and spiders and over all the power of this enemy. Nothing will be able to harm you.” But then he gave them some words of wisdom.

Matthew 8:22

“Let the ones who are spiritually dead bury their dead,” he said to the man. “You come and walk the road with me.”

Luke 9:60

“Let the ones who are dead bury their own dead,” he said to the man. “You are alive, go and tell others about Creator’s good road.”

Luke 15:23

Go get the fattest calf and prepare a great feast for a celebration.

Luke 15:25

“Now, the older son was just returning from a hard day’s work in the field. He heard the music and dancing,