Luke 15:7

Modern King James Version

I say to you that likewise joy shall be in Heaven over one sinner who repents, more than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.

Cross References

Proverbs 30:12

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

Matthew 18:13

And if it happens that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices more over it than over the ninety and nine which did not stray.

Matthew 3:8

Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance;

Luke 15:10

Likewise I say to you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.

Luke 15:29

And answering he said to his father, Lo, these many years I have served you, neither did I transgress your commandment at any time. And yet you never gave me a kid so that I might make merry with my friends.

Luke 15:32

It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

Luke 15:6

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

Luke 15:8

Or what woman having ten drachmas, if she loses one drachma, does she 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 those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

Luke 5:32

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

Romans 7:9

For I was alive without the law once. But when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.