Luke 15:7

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

I say to you that so is joy in Heaven over one sinner repenting, than over ninety nine righteous ones who have no need of repentance.

Cross References

Proverbs 30:12

a generation pure in its own eyes, and not washed from its filth.

Matthew 18:13

And if he happens to find it, truly I say to you that he rejoices over it more than over the ninety nine not having gone astray.

Matthew 3:8

Therefore, bring forth fruits worthy of repentance.

Luke 15:10

I say to you, So there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner repenting.

Luke 15:29

But answering, he said to the father, Behold, so many years I serve you, and I have never transgressed a command of you. And you never gave a goat to me, so that I might be merry with my friends.

Luke 15:32

But to be merry and it was right to rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead, and lived again; and being lost, also he was found.

Luke 15:6

And coming to the house, he calls together the friends and neighbors, saying to them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that had been lost.

Luke 15:8

Or what woman having ten drachmas, if she loses one drachma does not light a lamp and sweep the house, and seek carefully until she finds it?

Luke 16:15

And He said to them, You are the ones justifying yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts; for the thing highly prized among men is an abomination before God.

Luke 5:32

I did not come to call the righteous ones, but sinners to repentance.

Romans 7:9

And I lived apart from Law once, but the commandment coming, and sin came alive again, and I died.