Luke 15:7

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

Cross References

Proverbs 30:12

There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

Matthew 18:13

If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.

Matthew 3:8

Therefore bring forth fruit worthy of repentance!

Luke 15:10

Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.*

Luke 15:29

But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a mitzvah of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

Luke 15:32

But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.'*

Luke 15:6

When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!'

Luke 15:8

Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn't light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?

Luke 16:15

He said to them, *You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Luke 5:32

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

Romans 7:9

I was alive apart from the law once, but when the mitzvah came, sin revived, and I died.