NET Bible
"It was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost and is found.’”"
— Luke 15:32, NET Bible
“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.'"”
“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. ”
but he answered his father,‘Look! These many years I have worked like a slave for you, and I never disobeyed your commands. Yet you never gave me even a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends!
But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’
Then the father said to him,‘Son, you are always with me, and everything that belongs to me is yours.
It was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost and is found.’”