Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Bible References

Was meet

Luke 7:34
The Son of man came eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a man, a glutton, and wine-drinker, a friend of publicans and sinful.
Psalm 51:8
Thou wilt cause me to hear joy and gladness; the bones thou didst break shall rejoice.
Isaiah 35:10
And the ransomed of Jehovah shall turn back and come to Zion with a shout of joy and eternal joy upon their heads: and they shall attain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Hosea 14:9
Who being wise, and he shall understand these things? and knowing, and he shall know them? for the ways of Jehovah are straight, and the just shall go in them: and they transgressing shall be weak in them.
Jonah 4:10
And Jehovah will say, Thou didst spare for the gourd, which thou didst not labor for it, and thou didst not cause it to grow; it was the youth of a night, and the son of a night perished.
Romans 3:4
It may not be: and let God be true, and every man a liar; as has been written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, and mightest conquer in thy being judged.
Romans 15:9
And the nations to glorify God for mercies; as has been written, For this will I acknowledge to thee in the nations; and I will play on, the harp to thy name.

For

Luke 15:24
For this my son was dead, and has returned to life; and he was lost, and found. And they began to be gladdened.
Ephesians 2:1
And ye being dead in faults and in sins;

General references

Genesis 4:6
And Jehovah will say to Cain, Why art thou angry, and why does thy countenance fall?
Matthew 18:11
For the Son of man has come to save the lost.
Luke 19:10
For the Son of man came to seek and to save the lost.
Galatians 1:24
And they glorified God in me.