Luke 15:32

Webster Bible (1833)

It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

Cross References

Psalm 51:8

Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

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.

Hosea 14:9

Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall in them.

Matthew 18:11

For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.

Luke 15:24

For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

Luke 15:31

And he said to him, Son, thou art ever with me: and all that I have is thine.

Luke 7:34

The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold, a gluttonous man, and a wine-bibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.

Romans 11:15

For if the rejection of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

Romans 3:19

Now we know that whatever things the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

Romans 3:4

By no means: verily let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mayest be justified in thy sayings, and mayest overcome when thou art judged.