Luke 15:5

When the shepherd finds the lost sheep, he joyfully carries it home on his shoulders. God's recovery of the lost is marked by tender, rejoicing love.

Cross-references · 29

• Heb 12:2Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
• Luke 19:9And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham.
• Isa 46:3–4Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:
• Mic 7:18Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
• Isa 40:10–11Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
• Isa 63:9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
• Isa 62:5For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.
• Eph 2:3–6Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
• Zeph 3:17The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
• Isa 53:10–11Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
• Luke 23:43And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
• Luke 15:32It 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.
• Mic 5:4And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.
• John 4:34–35Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
• Ezek 18:23Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
• Titus 3:3–7For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Jer 32:41–42Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.
• John 15:11These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
• Ezek 33:11Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
• Eph 2:10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
• 1 Pet 1:5Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
• Acts 9:1–16And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
• 1 Th 1:5For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
• Eph 3:7Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
• Rom 10:20–21But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.
• Luke 15:23–24And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:
• Eph 1:19–20And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
• 2 Tim 2:26And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
• Isa 62:12And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.

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