Luke 15:32

New English Translation

It was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost and is found.’”

Cross References

Psalm 51:8

Grant me the ultimate joy of being forgiven! May the bones you crushed rejoice!

Isaiah 35:10

those whom the Lord has ransomed will return that way. They will enter Zion with a happy shout. Unending joy will crown them, happiness and joy will overwhelm them; grief and suffering will disappear.

Hosea 14:9

Who is wise? Let him discern these things! Who is discerning? Let him understand them! For the ways of the Lord are right; the godly walk in them, but in them the rebellious stumble.

Luke 15:24

because this son of mine was dead, and is alive again – he was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.

Luke 15:31

Then the father said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and everything that belongs to me is yours.

Luke 7:34

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

Romans 11:15

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

Romans 3:19

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

Romans 3:4

Absolutely not! Let God be proven true, and every human being shown up as a liar, just as it is written: “so that you will be justified in your words and will prevail when you are judged.”