Matthew 18:13

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

Truly I tell you, if he happens to find it, he is happier over it than over the ninety-nine that had not wandered away.

Cross References

Matthew 18:12

What do you think? If anyone had a hundred sheep, and one of them wandered away, would he not leave the ninety-nine [safe ones] and go to the mountains looking for the one that wandered away?

Matthew 18:14

In the same way, it is not the will of your Father in heaven that [a single] one of these little ones [i.e., humble followers of Christ] should be lost.

1 Corinthians 13:6

[Love] is not glad about the evil [that people do], but is glad about the truth [i.e., the good in their lives].

James 2:13

For the person who has shown no mercy will be judged without mercy. [For] mercy wins out over condemnation.