Luke 23:43 Cross References - Moffatt

⁴³ "I tell you truly," said Jesus, "you will be in paradise with me this very day."

¹⁵ Can I not do as I please with what belongs to me? Have you a grudge because I am generous?' ¹⁶ So shall the last be first and the first last."

⁴ "Which of you with a hundred sheep, if he loses one, does not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the lost one till he finds it? ⁵ When he finds it he puts it on his shoulders with joy,

²⁰ So he got up and went off to his father. But when he was still far away his father saw him and felt pity for him and ran to fall upon his neck and kiss him. ²¹ The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I don't deserve to be called your son any more.' ²² But the father said to his servants, 'Quick, bring the best robe and put it on him, give him a ring for his hand and sandals for his feet, ²³ and bring the fatted calf, kill it, and let us eat and be merry; ²⁴ for my son here was dead and he has come to life, he was lost and he is found.' So they began to make merry.

¹⁰ For the Son of man has come to seek and save the lost."

³ And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am.

²⁴ Father, it is my will that these, thy gift to me, may be beside me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me, because thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

²⁰ Law slipped in to aggravate the trespass; sin increased, but grace surpassed it far, ²¹ so that, while sin had reigned the reign of death, grace might also reign with a righteousness that ends in life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord.

⁸ and in this confidence I would fain get away from the body and reside with the Lord.

³ I simply know that in the body or out of the body (God knows which) ⁴ this man was caught up to paradise and heard sacred secrets which no human lips can repeat.

²³ I am in a dilemma between the two. My strong desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far the best.

¹⁵ It is a sure word, it deserves all praise, that "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners"; and though I am the foremost of sinners, ¹⁶ I obtained mercy, for the purpose of furnishing Christ Jesus with the chief illustration of his utter patience; I was to be the typical instance of all who were to believe in him and gain eternal life.

²⁵ Hence for all time he is able to save those who approach God through him, as he is always living to intercede on their behalf.

⁷ Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches: 'The conqueror I will allow to eat from the tree of Life which is within the paradise of God.'