24 For this son of mine was dead and is alive again;(A) he was lost and is found.’ So they began to celebrate.(B)

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24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

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made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions(A)—it is by grace you have been saved.(B)

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Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

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16 I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up(A) the injured and strengthen the weak,(B) but the sleek and the strong I will destroy.(C) I will shepherd the flock with justice.(D)

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16 I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.

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13 When you were dead in your sins(A) and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you[a] alive(B) with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 2:13 Some manuscripts us

13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

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10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”(A)

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10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

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“Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it?(A)

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What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?

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Made Alive in Christ

As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,(A)

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And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

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32 But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”(A)

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32 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.

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because through Christ Jesus(A) the law of the Spirit who gives life(B) has set you[a] free(C) from the law of sin(D) and death.

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  1. Romans 8:2 The Greek is singular; some manuscripts me

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

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11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin(A) but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

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11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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10     and those the Lord has rescued(A) will return.
They will enter Zion with singing;(B)
    everlasting joy(C) will crown their heads.
Gladness(D) and joy will overtake them,
    and sorrow and sighing will flee away.(E)

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10 And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

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14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.(A) 15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves(B) but for him who died for them(C) and was raised again.

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14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

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15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.(A)

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15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

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