Luke 15:32

30 But when this son of yours returns from squandering your wealth with prostitutes, you kill the fattened calf for him!’

31 ‘Son, you are always with me,’ the father said, ‘and all that is mine is yours.

But it was fitting to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
But it was fitting to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”
KJV
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.
WEB
But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’”
ASV
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.
DARBY
But it was right to make merry and rejoice, because this thy brother was dead and has come to life again, and was lost and has been found.
BLB
But it was fitting to be merry and to rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and lived again; and he was lost and was found.’”
ÅB
men vi burde fryde og glede oss fordi denne din bror var død og er blitt levende, var tapt og er funnet.
OTB
Men det var nødvendig å feire og være glad, for denne broren din var som død, men nå er han levende igjen; han var mistet og er funnet.’»
B1930
men vi burde fryde og glede oss fordi denne din bror var død og er blitt levende, var tapt og er funnet.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Ephesians 2:1–10

    And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

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  • Luke 15:24

    For this son of mine was dead and is alive again! He was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.

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  • Isaiah 35:10

    So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.

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  • Romans 3:4

    Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”

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  • Psalms 51:8

    Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.

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  • Romans 15:9–13

    so that the Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy. As it is written: “Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles; I will sing hymns to Your name.”

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  • Jonah 4:10–11

    But the LORD said, “You cared about the plant, which you neither tended nor made grow. It sprang up in a night and perished in a night.

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  • Hosea 14:9

    Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, and the righteous walk in them but the rebellious stumble in them.

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