Luke 15:24

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Luke 15:24

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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Luke 15:4

Luke 19:10

Matthew 18:11

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Matthew 18:11

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We could but make merry and rejoice, for here is your brother who was dead, and is alive; who was lost, and is found.'"

They came to Bethsaida. There some people brought a blind man to Jesus, and begged him to touch him.

For, just as the Father raises the dead and gives them Life, so also the Son gives Life to whom he pleases.

"I am the Resurrection and the Life," said Jesus. "He that believes in me shall live, though he die;

So let it be with you-regard yourselves as dead to sin, but as living for God, through union with Christ Jesus.

For through your union with Christ Jesus, the Law of the life- giving Spirit has set you free from the Law of Sin and Death.

It is the love of the Christ which compels us, when we reflect that, as one died for all, therefore all died;

You yourselves were once dead because of your offenses and sins.

For everything that has its true character made manifest is clear as light. And that is why it is said--'Sleeper, awake! Arise from the dead, and the Christ shall give thee light!'

And to you, who once were 'dead,' by reason of your sins and your uncircumcised nature--to you God gave Life in giving life to Christ! He pardoned all our sins!

But the life of a widow who is devoted to pleasure is a living death.

These are the men who are blots upon your 'Love-feasts,' when they feast together and provide without scruple for themselves alone. They are clouds without rain, driven before the winds; they are leafless trees without a vestige of fruit, dead through and through, torn up by the roots;

To the Angel of the Church in Sardis write:-- "These are the words of him who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars;--I know your life, and that men say of you that you are living, though you are dead.

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"What man among you who has a hundred sheep, and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine out in the open country, and go after the lost sheep till he finds it?

The Son of Man has come to 'search for those who are lost' and to save them."

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So, I tell you, there will be more rejoicing in Heaven over one outcast that repents, than over ninety-nine religious men, who have no need to repent.

Remember, I have given you the power to 'trample upon serpents and scorpions,' and to meet all the strength of the Enemy. Nothing shall ever harm you in any way.

Rejoice with those who are rejoicing, and weep with those who are weeping.

If one part suffers, all the others suffer with it, and if one part has honor done it, all the others share its joy.

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