Luke 15:32

We are bound to make merry and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and has come back to life, he was lost and has been found.'"

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

31"`You my dear son,' said the father, `are always with me, and all that is mine is also yours.

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Cross References

Luke 7:34The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, `Look, there is a man who is overfond of eating and drinking--he is a friend of tax-gatherers and notorious sinners!'

Romans 3:4No, indeed; let us hold God to be true, though every man should prove to be false. As it stands written, "That Thou mayest be shown to be just in the sentence Thou pronouncest, and gain Thy cause when Thou contendest."

Romans 15:9and that the Gentiles also have glorified God in acknowledgment of His mercy. So it is written, "For this reason I will praise Thee among the Gentiles, and sing psalms in honour of Thy name."

Matthew Henry on Luke 15:12-32

The Prodigal Son. 11 And he said, A certain man had two sons: 12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. 13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. 14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. 15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that… Read the whole commentary →

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