Luke 15:24
for this, my son, was dead and is alive again. He was lost and is found.’ Then they began to 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.
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Nehemiah 8:12
All the people went their way to eat, to drink, to send portions, and to celebrate, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.
Jeremiah 30:19
Thanksgiving will proceed out of them with the voice of those who make merry. I will multiply them, and they will not be few; I will also glorify them, and they will not be small.
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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.
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.
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.
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Luke 15:11
He said, “A certain man had two sons.
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 15:30
But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’
Luke 15:31
“He said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.
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John 5:21
For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.
John 5:24
“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
John 5:25
Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.
2 Corinthians 5:15
He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
Ephesians 2:4
But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
Ephesians 2:6
and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
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