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 to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
• Luke 19:9Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.
• Isa 46:3–4“Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been carried from their birth, that have been carried from the womb.
• Mic 7:18Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
• Isa 40:10–11Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense 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. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
• Isa 62:5For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
• Eph 2:3–6among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
• Zeph 3:17Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.
• Isa 53:10–11Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days, and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.
• Luke 23:43Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
• 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.’”
• Mic 5:4He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God: and they will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.
• John 4:34–35Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
• Ezek 18:23Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked?” says the Lord Yahweh; “and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?
• Titus 3:3–7For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Jer 32:41–42Yes, 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 15:11I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.
• Ezek 33:11Tell them, As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, house of Israel?
• Eph 2:10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
• 1 Pet 1:5who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
• Acts 9:1–16But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,
• 1 Th 1:5and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.
• Eph 3:7of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.
• Rom 10:20–21Isaiah is very bold, and says, “I was found by those who didn’t seek me. I was revealed to those who didn’t ask for me.”
• Luke 15:23–24Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate;
• Eph 1:19–20and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might
• 2 Tim 2:26and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.
• Isa 62:12They will call them The holy people, Yahweh’s redeemed. You will be called Sought out, A city not forsaken.

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