32But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.'|


In Context

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.

30 But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.'

31 |He said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.

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.'|

Luke 15:32 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:32It 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

15:32But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.' "

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

15:32But 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

15:32But 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:32But it was right to make merry and rejoice, because this thy brother was dead and has come to life again, and was lost and has been found.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

15:32But 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:32It 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

15:32but to be merry, and to be glad, it was needful, because this thy brother was dead, and did live again, he was lost, and was found.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:32It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this your brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.