Luke 15:32 - American Standard Version (1901)

³² 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³² 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

³² 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!

Common English Bible

³² 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

³² 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

³² 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.

English Standard Version 2016

³² It was fitting to celebrate and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; 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 thou hast broken may rejoice.

Isaiah 35:10

and the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Hosea 14:9

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? prudent, that he may know them? for the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but transgressors shall fall therein.

Matthew 18:11

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 unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that is mine is thine.

Luke 7:34

The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold, a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!

Romans 11:15

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

Romans 3:19

Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:

Romans 3:4

God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment.