Luke 15:24

New International Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 45:28

And Israel said, “I’m convinced! My son Joseph is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”

Isaiah 35:10

and those the Lord has rescued will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.

Isaiah 66:11

For you will nurse and be satisfied at her comforting breasts; you will drink deeply and delight in her overflowing abundance.”

Ezekiel 34:16

I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak, but the sleek and the strong I will destroy. I will shepherd the flock with justice.

Ezekiel 34:4

You have not strengthened the weak or healed the sick or bound up the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally.

Matthew 8:22

But Jesus told him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”

Mark 8:22

They came to Bethsaida, and some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.

Luke 10:19

I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.

Luke 15:23

Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let’s have a feast and celebrate.

Luke 15:25

“Meanwhile, the older son was in the field. When he came near the house, he heard music and dancing.

Luke 15:32

But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ ”

Luke 15:4

“Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it?

Luke 19:10

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

Luke 9:60

Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”

John 11:25

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die;

John 5:21

For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it.

Romans 11:15

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

Romans 12:15

Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.

Romans 6:11

In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Romans 6:13

Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.

Romans 8:2

because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.

1 Corinthians 12:26

If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

Ephesians 2:1

As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,

Ephesians 2:5

made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.

Ephesians 5:14

This is why it is said: “Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Colossians 2:13

When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,

1 Timothy 5:6

But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.

Jude 1:12

These people are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted—twice dead.

Revelation 3:1

“To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.