²⁴ for this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found!’ And they began to celebrate.^(A)

⁵ even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ^[a]—by grace you have been saved—

¹⁶ I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strays, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with justice.^(A)

¹³ And when you were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God^[a] made you^[b] alive together with him, when he forgave us all our trespasses,^(A)

¹⁰ For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost.”

⁴ “Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost until he finds it?

From Death to Life

2 You were dead through the trespasses and sins

³² But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life; he was lost and has been found.’ ”^(A)

² For the law of the Spirit^[a] of life in Christ Jesus has set you^[b] free from the law of sin and of death.^(A)

¹¹ So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.^(A)