Luke 15:5 Cross References - Moffatt

⁵ When he finds it he puts it on his shoulders with joy,

²³ and bring the fatted calf, kill it, and let us eat and be merry; ²⁴ for my son here was dead and he has come to life, he was lost and he is found.' So they began to make merry.

³² We could not but make merry and rejoice, for your brother here was dead and has come to life again, he was lost but he has been found.' "

⁹ And Jesus said of him, "To-day salvation has come to this house, since Zacchaeus here is a son of Abraham.

⁴³ "I tell you truly," said Jesus, "you will be in paradise with me this very day."

³⁴ Jesus said, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work. ³⁵ You have a saying, have you not, 'Four months yet, then harvest'? Look round, I tell you; see, the fields are white for harvesting!

¹¹ I have told you this, that my joy may be within you and your joy complete.

¹ Meanwhile Saul still breathed threats of murder against the disciples of the Lord. He went to the high priest ² and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus empowering him to put any man or woman in chains whom he could find belonging to the Way, and bring them to Jerusalem. ³ As he neared Damascus in the course of his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed round him; ⁴ he dropped to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?" ⁵ "Who are you?" he asked. "I am Jesus," he said, "and you persecute me. ⁶ Get up and go into the city. There you will be told what you have to do." ⁷ His fellow-travellers stood speechless, for they heard the voice but they could not see anyone. ⁸ Saul got up from the ground, but though his eyes were open he could see nothing; so they took his hand and led him to Damascus. ⁹ For three days he remained sightless, he neither ate nor drank. ¹⁰ Now there was a disciple called Ananias in Damascus. The Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias." He said, "I am here, Lord." ¹¹ And the Lord said to him, "Go away to the street called 'The Straight Street,' and ask at the house of Judas for a man of Tarsus called Saul. He is praying at this very moment, ¹² and he has seen a man called Ananias enter and lay his hands upon him to bring back his sight." ¹³ "But, Lord," Ananias answered, "many people have told me about all the mischief this man has done to thy saints at Jerusalem! ¹⁴ And in this city too he has authority from the high priests to put anyone in chains who invokes thy Name!" ¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, "Go; I have chosen him to be the means of bringing my Name before the Gentiles and their kings as well as before the sons of Israel. ¹⁶ I will show him all he has to suffer for the sake of my Name."

²⁰ And then Isaiah dares to say, I have been found by those who never sought me, I have shown myself to those who never inquired of me. ²¹ He also says of Israel, All the day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.

¹⁹ and the surpassing greatness of his power over us believers — a power which operates with the strength of the might ²⁰ which he exerted in raising Christ from the dead and seating him at his right hand in the heavenly sphere,

³ among whom all of us lived, we as well as you, when we obeyed the passions of our flesh, carrying out the dictates of the flesh and its impulses, when we were objects of God's anger by nature, like the rest of men. ⁴ But, dead in trespasses as we were, God was so rich in mercy that for his great love to us ⁵ he made us live together with Christ (it is by grace you have been saved); ⁶ together with Christ he raised and seated us within the heavenly sphere in Christ Jesus,

¹⁰ God has made us what we are, creating us in Christ Jesus for the good deeds which are prepared beforehand by God as our sphere of action.

⁷ Such is the gospel which I was called to serve by the endowment of God's grace which was vouchsafed me, by the energy of his power;

⁵ for our gospel came to you not with mere words but also with power and with the holy Spirit, with ample conviction on our part (you know what we were to you, for your own good),

²⁶ they may come to their senses again and escape the snare of the devil, as they are brought back to life by God to do his will.

³ For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another. ⁴ But "the goodness and affection of God our Saviour appeared; ⁵ and he saved us, not for anything we had done but from his own pity for us, by the water that means regeneration and renewal under the holy Spirit ⁶ which he poured upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour, ⁷ that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs to the hope of life eternal."

² our eyes fixed upon Jesus as the pioneer and the perfection of faith — upon Jesus who, in order to reach his own appointed joy, steadily endured the cross, thinking nothing of its shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

⁵ and the power of God protects you by faith till you do inherit the salvation which is all ready to be revealed at the last hour.