Luke 15:7

Legacy Standard Bible

I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

Cross References

Proverbs 30:12

There is a generation that is clean in its own eyes, Yet is not washed from its filthiness.

Matthew 18:13

And if it turns out that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.

Matthew 3:8

Therefore bear fruit in keeping with repentance;

Luke 15:10

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

Luke 15:29

But he answered and said to his father, ‘Look! For so many years I have been serving you and never have I neglected a command of yours. And yet never have you given me a young goat, so that I might celebrate with my friends.

Luke 15:32

But we had to celebrate and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and is alive, and was lost and has been found.’ ”

Luke 15:6

And 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 has ten drachmas and loses one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it?

Luke 16:15

And He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts, for that which is highly esteemed among men is detestable in the sight of God.

Luke 5:32

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

Romans 7:9

Now I was once alive apart from the Law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died;