Luke 15:23
Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let’s eat and celebrate;
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Luke 15:23
Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let’s eat and celebrate;
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Luke 15:24
for this, my son, was dead and is alive again. He was lost and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.
Luke 15:5
When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
Luke 15:6
When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’
Luke 15:7
I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.
Luke 15:8
“Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?
Luke 15:9
When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost!’
Luke 15:10
Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”
Zephaniah 3:17
Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.
Jeremiah 32:41
Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.”
Isaiah 62:4
You will not be called Forsaken any more, nor will your land be called Desolate any more; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land will be married.
Isaiah 62:5
For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
Micah 7:18
Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
Psalms 147:11
Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.
Isaiah 65:19
I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and delight in my people; and the voice of weeping and the voice of crying will be heard in her no more.
Deuteronomy 30:9
Yahweh your God will make you prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good; for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers,
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Luke 15:22
“But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet.
Luke 15:27
He said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.’
Luke 15:28
But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and begged him.
Luke 15:29
But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.
Luke 15:30
But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’
Luke 15:12
The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.’ So he divided his livelihood between them.
Luke 15:13
Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.
Luke 15:14
When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.
Luke 15:15
He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
Luke 15:16
He wanted to fill his belly with the pods that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.
Luke 15:17
But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!
Luke 15:18
I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight.
Luke 15:25
“Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.
Jeremiah 31:20
Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.
2 Corinthians 7:6
Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus,
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Luke 15:11
He said, “A certain man had two sons.
Luke 15:19
I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants.” ’
Luke 15:20
“He arose and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion, and ran, fell on his neck, and kissed him.
Luke 15:21
The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
Luke 15:26
He called one of the servants to him and asked what was going on.
Luke 15:31
“He said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.
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Luke 15:32
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.’ ”
John 15:11
I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.
Isaiah 53:11
After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.
Ezekiel 18:23
Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked?” says the Lord Yahweh, “and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?
Ezekiel 33:11
Tell them, ‘ “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?” ’
James 2:13
For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Hebrews 12:2
looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
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Genesis 18:7
Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.
Genesis 18:8
He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.
1 Samuel 28:24
The woman had a fattened calf in the house. She hurried and killed it; and she took flour and kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread of it.
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Matthew 22:4
Again he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding feast!” ’
Isaiah 25:6
In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.
Psalms 63:5
My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,
Proverbs 15:17
Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.
Ecclesiastes 9:7
Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.
Isaiah 55:2
Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.
Amos 6:4
who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the middle of the stall,
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Proverbs 15:20
A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.
Proverbs 23:24
The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
Proverbs 27:11
Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor.
Proverbs 29:3
Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
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