Luke 15:7 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁷ Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ Thus, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one [especially] wicked person who repents (changes his mind, abhorring his errors and misdeeds, and determines to enter upon a better course of life) than over ninety-nine righteous persons who have no need of repentance.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ I say unto you, that even so there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine righteous persons, who need no repentance.

Common English Bible

⁷ In the same way, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who changes both heart and life than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need to change their hearts and lives.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ I say to you, that there will be so much more joy in heaven over one sinner repenting, than over the ninety-nine just, who do not need to repent.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ I say to you, that even so there shall be joy in heaven upon one sinner that doth penance, more than upon ninety-nine just who need not penance.

Luke 15:7 Cross References

Proverbs 30:12

There are those who are pure in their own eyes but are not cleansed of their filth.

Matthew 18:13

And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray.

Matthew 3:8

Bear fruit that befits repentance,

Luke 15:10

Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

Luke 15:29

but he answered his father, ‘Lo, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command; yet you never gave me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends.

Luke 15:32

It was fitting to make merry and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.’ ”

Luke 15:6

And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.’

Luke 15:8

“Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it?

Luke 16:15

But he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts; for what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Luke 5:32

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Romans 7:9

I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died;