Luke 15:24 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

²⁴ For here is my son who was dead, and is alive again, was lost, and is found.' So they began making merry.

¹⁰ Beware of despising one of these lowly ones, for in Heaven, I tell you, their angels always see the face of my Father who is in Heaven. ¹¹ OMITTED TEXT ¹² What think you? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them strays, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills, and go and search for the one that is straying? ¹³ And, if he succeeds in finding it, I tell you that he rejoices more over that one sheep than over the ninety-nine which did not stray.

²² They came to Bethsaida. There some people brought a blind man to Jesus, and begged him to touch him.

¹⁹ Remember, I have given you the power to 'trample upon serpents and scorpions,' and to meet all the strength of the Enemy. Nothing shall ever harm you in any way.

⁴ "What man among you who has a hundred sheep, and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine out in the open country, and go after the lost sheep till he finds it?

⁷ So, I tell you, there will be more rejoicing in Heaven over one outcast that repents, than over ninety-nine religious men, who have no need to repent. ⁸ Or again, what woman who has ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it? ⁹ And, when she has found it, she calls her friends and neighbors together, and says 'Come and rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I lost.'

³² We could but make merry and rejoice, for here is your brother who was dead, and is alive; who was lost, and is found.'"

¹⁰ The Son of Man has come to 'search for those who are lost' and to save them."

²¹ For, just as the Father raises the dead and gives them Life, so also the Son gives Life to whom he pleases.

²⁴ In truth I tell you that he who listens to my Message and believes him who sent me, has Immortal Life, and does not come under condemnation, but has already passed out of Death into Life. ²⁵ In truth I tell you that a time is coming, indeed it is already here, when the Dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and when those who listen will live.

²⁵ "I am the Resurrection and the Life," said Jesus. "He that believes in me shall live, though he die;

¹¹ So let it be with you-regard yourselves as dead to sin, but as living for God, through union with Christ Jesus.

¹³ Do not offer any part of your bodies to Sin, in the cause of unrighteousness, but once for all offer yourselves to God (as those who, though once dead, now have Life), and devote every part of your bodies to the cause of righteousness.

² For through your union with Christ Jesus, the Law of the life- giving Spirit has set you free from the Law of Sin and Death.

¹⁵ For, if their being cast aside has meant the reconciliation of the world, what will their reception mean, but Life from the dead?

¹⁵ Rejoice with those who are rejoicing, and weep with those who are weeping.

²⁶ If one part suffers, all the others suffer with it, and if one part has honor done it, all the others share its joy.

¹⁴ It is the love of the Christ which compels us, when we reflect that, as one died for all, therefore all died; ¹⁵ And that he died for all, so that the living should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died and rose for them.

¹ You yourselves were once dead because of your offenses and sins.

⁵ Even though we were 'dead' because of our offenses, gave Life to us in giving Life to the Christ. (By God's loving-kindness you have been saved.)

¹⁴ For everything that has its true character made manifest is clear as light. And that is why it is said--'Sleeper, awake! Arise from the dead, and the Christ shall give thee light!'

¹³ And to you, who once were 'dead,' by reason of your sins and your uncircumcised nature--to you God gave Life in giving life to Christ! He pardoned all our sins!

⁶ But the life of a widow who is devoted to pleasure is a living death.

¹² These are the men who are blots upon your 'Love-feasts,' when they feast together and provide without scruple for themselves alone. They are clouds without rain, driven before the winds; they are leafless trees without a vestige of fruit, dead through and through, torn up by the roots;

¹ To the Angel of the Church in Sardis write:-- "These are the words of him who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars;--I know your life, and that men say of you that you are living, though you are dead.