Catholic Public Domain Version
"But it was necessary to feast and to rejoice. For this brother of yours was dead, and has revived; he was lost, and is found.’ ” "
— Luke 15:32, Catholic Public Domain 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. ”
“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. ”
“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.'"”
“It was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost and is found.’””
“But it was fit that we should make merry and be glad: for this thy brother was dead and is come to life again; he was lost, and is found. ”
“But it was right to be glad and to have a feast; for this your brother, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away and has come back.”
“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 in response, he said to his father: ‘Behold, I have been serving you for so many years. And I have never transgressed your commandment. And yet, you have never given me even a young goat, so that I might feast with my friends.
Yet after this son of yours returned, who has devoured his substance with loose women, you have killed the fatted calf for him.’
But he said to him: ‘Son, you are with me always, and all that I have is yours.
But it was necessary to feast and to rejoice. For this brother of yours was dead, and has revived; he was lost, and is found.’ ”