Luke 15:24

The father declares his son was dead and is alive, lost and now found, and the feast begins.

Cross-references · 30

• Eph 2:5even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
• Ezek 34:16I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice.
• Luke 19:10For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”
• Col 2:13You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
• Luke 15:4“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?
• Eph 2:1You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,
• Luke 15:32But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’”
• Rom 6:11Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Luke 15:7–9I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.
• Isa 35:10The Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”
• 2 Cor 5:14–15For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
• John 11:25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
• Rom 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
• John 5:24–25“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
• Rom 12:15Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.
• 1 Cor 12:26When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. Or when one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
• Eph 5:14Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
• Matt 18:10–13See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
• Rev 3:1“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
• Rom 6:13Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
• John 5:21For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.
• Jer 31:12–17They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
• Rom 11:15For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?
• Mark 8:22He came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to him, and begged him to touch him.
• Ezek 34:4You haven’t strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought back that which was driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor you have ruled over them.
• 1 Tim 5:6But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.
• Luke 10:19Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.
• Jude 1:12These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
• Gen 45:28Israel said, “It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”
• Isa 66:11that you may nurse and be satisfied at the comforting breasts; that you may drink deeply, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.”

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