Luke 15:24

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Genesis 45:28

Israel said, “Enough! My son Joseph is still alive. I must go and see him before I die.”

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.

Isaiah 66:11

that you may nurse and be satisfied from her consoling breast, that you may drink deeply with delight from her glorious bosom.

Ezekiel 34:16

I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strays, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with justice.

Ezekiel 34:4

You have not strengthened the weak; you have not healed the sick; you have not bound up the injured; you have not brought back the strays; you have not sought the lost, but with force and harshness you have ruled them.

Matthew 8:22

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

Mark 8:22

They came to Bethsaida. Some people brought a blind man to him and begged him to touch him.

Luke 10:19

Indeed, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will hurt you.

Luke 15:23

And get the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate,

Luke 15:25

“Now his elder son was in the field, and as he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing.

Luke 15:32

But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life; he was lost and has been found.’ ”

Luke 15:4

“Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost until he finds it?

Luke 19:10

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

Luke 9:60

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

John 11:25

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live,

John 5:21

Indeed, just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.

Romans 11:15

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

Romans 12:15

Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.

Romans 6:11

So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Romans 6:13

No longer present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness.

Romans 8:2

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.

1 Corinthians 12:26

If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it.

Ephesians 2:1

You were dead through the trespasses and sins

Ephesians 2:5

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

Ephesians 5:14

for everything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Sleeper, awake! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Colossians 2:13

And when you were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive together with him, when he forgave us all our trespasses,

1 Timothy 5:6

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

Jude 1:12

These are blots on your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, feeding themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted;

Revelation 3:1

“And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars: “I know your works; you have a name of being alive, but you are dead.