Luke 15:10

Catholic Public Domain Version

So I say to you, there will be joy before the Angels of God over even one sinner who is repentant."

Cross References

Ezekiel 18:23

How could it be my will that an impious man should die, says the Lord God, and not that he should be converted from his ways and live?

Ezekiel 18:32

For I do not desire the death of one who dies, says the Lord God. So return and live."

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them: As I live, says the Lord God, I do not desire the death of the impious, but that the impious should convert from his way and live. Be converted, be converted from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?

Matthew 10:32

Therefore, everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father, who is in heaven.

Matthew 18:10

See to it that you do not despise even one of these little ones. For I say to you, that their Angels in heaven continually look upon the face of my Father, who is in heaven.

Matthew 18:14

Even so, it is not the will before your Father, who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should be lost.

Luke 12:8

But I say to you: Everyone who will have confessed me before men, the Son of man will also confess him before the Angels of God.

Luke 12:9

But everyone who will have denied me before men, he will be denied before the Angels of God.

Luke 13:5

No, I tell you. But if you do not repent, you will all perish similarly."

Luke 15:11

And he said: "A certain man had two sons.

Luke 15:7

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.

Luke 15:9

And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying: 'Rejoice with me! For I have found the drachma, which I had lost.'

Luke 7:47

Because of this, I tell you: many sins are forgiven her, because she has loved much. But he who is forgiven less, loves less."

Acts 11:18

Having heard these things, they were silent. And they glorified God, saying: "So has God also given to the Gentiles repentance unto life."

Acts 5:19

But in the night, an Angel of the Lord opened the doors of the prison and led them out, saying,

2 Corinthians 7:10

For the sorrow that is according to God accomplishes a repentance which is steadfast unto salvation. But the sorrow that is of the world accomplishes death.

Philemon 1:15

So perhaps, then, he departed from you for a time, so that you might receive him again for eternity,

Hebrews 1:14

Are they not all spirits of ministration, sent to minister for the sake of those who shall receive the inheritance of salvation?