Luke 15:32 - Modern English Version

³² But it was fitting to be merry and be glad, for this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he 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!

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.

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.' "

Luke 15:32 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 51:8

Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that You have broken 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

Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever prudent, let him know them. For the ways of the Lord are right, and the just will walk in them; but the transgressors stumble in them.

Matthew 18:11

For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.

Luke 15:24

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

Luke 15:31

“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. But you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

Romans 11:15

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

Romans 3:19

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced, and all the world may become accountable to God.

Romans 3:4

God forbid! Let God be true, and every man a liar. As it is written: “That You may be justified in Your words, and may prevail in Your judging.”