Luke 15:7

Good News Translation (US Version)

In the same way, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine respectable people who do not need to repent.

Cross References

Luke 5:32

I have not come to call respectable people to repent, but outcasts.”

Luke 15:10

In the same way, I tell you, the angels of God rejoice over one sinner who repents.”

Luke 15:32

But we had to celebrate and be happy, because your brother was dead, but now he is alive; he was lost, but now he has been found.’”

Matthew 18:13

When he finds it, I tell you, he feels far happier over this one sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not get lost.

Proverbs 30:12

There are people who think they are pure when they are as filthy as they can be.

Romans 7:9

I myself was once alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life,

Luke 16:15

Jesus said to them, “You are the ones who make yourselves look right in other people's sight, but God knows your hearts. For the things that are considered of great value by people are worth nothing in God's sight.

Luke 15:29

But he spoke back to his father, ‘Look, all these years I have worked for you like a slave, and I have never disobeyed your orders. What have you given me? Not even a goat for me to have a feast with my friends!

Matthew 3:8

Do those things that will show that you have turned from your sins.

Luke 15:6

and carry it back home. Then you call your friends and neighbors together and say to them, ‘I am so happy I found my lost sheep. Let us celebrate!’

Luke 15:8

“Or suppose a woman who has ten silver coins loses one of them—what does she do? She lights a lamp, sweeps her house, and looks carefully everywhere until she finds it.