Luke 15:7

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I tell you, in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven   over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who don’t need repentance.

Cross References

Luke 5:32

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

Luke 15:10

I tell you, in the same way, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels   over one sinner who repents.’

Luke 15:32

But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.” ’

Matthew 18:13

And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he rejoices over that sheep   more than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.

Proverbs 30:12

There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, yet is not washed from its filth.

Romans 7:9

Once I was alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life again

Luke 16:15

And he told them, ‘You are the ones who justify   yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts.   For what is highly admired by people is revolting   in God’s sight.

Luke 15:29

But he replied to his father, “Look, I have been slaving many years for you, and I have never disobeyed your orders, yet you never gave me a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends.

Matthew 3:8

Therefore produce fruit  consistent with  repentance.

Luke 15:6

and coming home, he calls his friends and neighbours together, saying to them, “Rejoice with me, because I have found my lost sheep! ”

Luke 15:8

‘Or what woman who has ten silver coins,   , if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it?