Luke 15:32 - Modern King James Version

It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But it was fitting to make merry, to revel and feast and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and is alive again! He was lost and is found!

American Standard Version (1901)

But it was meet to make merry and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

Common English Bible

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

Catholic Public Domain Version

But it was necessary to feast and to rejoice. For this brother of yours was dead, and has revived; he was lost, and is found.' "

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But it was fit that we should make merry and be glad, for this thy brother was dead and is come to life again; he was lost, and is found.

Luke 15:32 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 51:8

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

Isaiah 35:10

And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy on 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? Understanding, and he shall know them? For the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but sinners shall fall in them.

Matthew 18:11

For the Son of Man has 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, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours.

Luke 7:34

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, Behold a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners!

Romans 11:15

For if their casting away is the reconciling of the world, what is the reception except life from the dead?

Romans 3:19

But we know that whatever things the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law; so that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be under judgment before God,

Romans 3:4

Let it not be! But let God be true, and every man a liar; as it is written, "That You might be justified in Your sayings, and will overcome when You are judged."