Luke 15:7

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

In the same way, I tell you, heaven is a happy place when one sinner decides to change. There is more joy for that one sinner than for 99 good people who don’t need to change.

Cross References

Luke 5:32

I have not come to ask good people to change. I have come to ask sinners to change the way they live.”

Luke 15:10

In the same way, it’s a happy time for the angels of God when one sinner decides to change.”

Luke 15:32

But this was a day to be happy and celebrate. Your brother was dead, but now he is alive. He was lost, but now he is found.’”

Matthew 18:13

And if he finds the lost sheep, he is happier about that one sheep than about the 99 sheep that were never lost. I can assure you,

Proverbs 30:12

Some people think they are pure, but they have done nothing to remove the filth of their sin.

Romans 7:9

Before I knew the law, I was alive. But when I heard the law’s command, sin began to live,

Luke 16:15

Jesus said to them, “You make yourselves look good in front of people. But God knows what is really in your hearts. What people think is important is worth nothing to God.

Luke 15:29

But he said to his father, ‘Look, for all these years I have worked like a slave for you. I have always done what you told me to do, and you never gave me even a young goat for a party with my friends.

Matthew 3:8

Change your hearts! And show by the way you live that you have changed.

Luke 15:6

home, go to your friends and neighbors and say to them, ‘Be happy with me because I found my lost sheep!’

Luke 15:8

“Suppose a woman has ten silver coins, but she loses one of them. She will take a light and clean the house. She will look carefully for the coin until she finds it.