Luke 15:24

Modern English Version

For this son of mine was dead, and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ So they began to be merry.

Cross References

Genesis 45:28

Then Israel said, “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 songs and everlasting joy upon their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Isaiah 66:11

that you may feed and be satisfied with her consoling breasts, that you may feed and be delighted with the abundance of her bosom.

Ezekiel 34:16

I will seek that which was lost and bring back that which was driven away and bind up that which was broken and will strengthen that which was sick. But I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them with judgment.

Ezekiel 34:4

The diseased you have not strengthened, nor have you healed that which was sick, nor have you bound up that which was broken, nor have you brought back that which was driven away, nor have you sought that which was lost. But with force and with cruelty you have subjugated them.

Matthew 8:22

But Jesus said to him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their dead.”

Mark 8:22

He came to Bethsaida. And they brought a blind man to Him and entreated Him to touch him.

Luke 10:19

Behold, I give you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. And nothing shall by any means hurt you.

Luke 15:23

Bring here the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and be merry.

Luke 15:25

“Now his older son was in the field. As he came and drew near the house, he heard music and dancing.

Luke 15:32

But it was fitting to be merry and be glad, for this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ ”

Luke 15:4

“What man among you having a hundred sheep and losing 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 has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

Luke 9:60

Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead. But you go and preach 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 may die, yet shall he live.

John 5:21

For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so 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, and weep with those who weep.

Romans 6:11

Likewise, you also consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:13

Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but yield yourselves to God, as those who are alive from the dead, and your bodies 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 part suffers, all the parts suffer with it, and if one part is honored, all the parts rejoice with it.

Ephesians 2:1

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

Ephesians 2:5

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

Ephesians 5:14

Therefore He says: “Awake, you who sleep, arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.”

Colossians 2:13

And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has resurrected together with Him, having forgiven you all sins.

1 Timothy 5:6

But she who lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.

Jude 1:12

These are the ones who are stains on your love feasts as they feast with you irreverently and care only for themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted;

Revelation 3:1

“To the angel of the church in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars says these things: I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.