Luke 15:7

Catholic Public Domain Version

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.

Cross References

Proverbs 30:12

There is a generation which seems pure to themselves, and yet they are not even washed from their filthiness.

Matthew 18:13

And if he should happen to find it: Amen I say to you, that he has more joy over that one, than over the ninety-nine which did not go astray.

Matthew 3:8

Therefore, produce fruit worthy of repentance.

Luke 15:10

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

Luke 15:29

And in response, he said to his father: 'Behold, I have been serving you for so many years. And I have never transgressed your commandment. And yet, you have never given me even a young goat, so that I might feast with my friends.

Luke 15:32

But it was necessary to feast and to rejoice. For this brother of yours was dead, and has revived; he was lost, and is found.' "

Luke 15:6

And returning home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them: 'Congratulate me! For I have found my sheep, which had been lost.'

Luke 15:8

Or what woman, having ten drachmas, if she will have lost one drachma, would not light a candle, and sweep the house, and diligently search until she finds it?

Luke 16:15

And he said to them: "You are the ones who justify yourselves in the sight of men. But God knows your hearts. For what is lifted up by men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Luke 5:32

I have not come to call the just, but sinners to repentance."

Romans 7:9

Now I lived for some time apart from the law. But when the commandment had arrived, sin was revived,