"For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry."
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And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.
And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.
Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for 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.
The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.
And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him.
Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
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.
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
For this, my son, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away from me, and has come back. And they were full of joy.
for this my son was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found. And they began to make merry.
For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.' They began to celebrate.
because this my son was dead, and did live again, and he was lost, and was found; and they began to be merry.