Luke 15:7

New Century Version

In the same way, I tell you there is more joy in heaven over one sinner who changes his heart and life, than over ninety-nine good people who don’t need to change.

Cross References

Proverbs 30:12

Some people think they are pure, but they are not really free from evil.

Matthew 18:13

I tell you the truth, if he finds it he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that were never lost.

Matthew 3:8

Do the things that show you really have changed your hearts and lives.

Luke 15:10

In the same way, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God when one sinner changes his heart and life.”

Luke 15:29

But the older son said to his father, ‘I have served you like a slave for many years and have always obeyed your commands. But you never gave me even a young goat to have at a feast with my friends.

Luke 15:32

We had to celebrate and be happy because your brother was dead, but now he is alive. He was lost, but now he is found.’ ”

Luke 15:6

and goes home. He calls to his friends and neighbors and says, ‘Be happy with me because I found my lost sheep.’

Luke 15:8

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

Luke 16:15

He said to them, “You make yourselves look good in front of people, but God knows what is really in your hearts. What is important to people is hateful in God’s sight.

Luke 5:32

I have not come to invite good people but sinners to change their hearts and lives.”

Romans 7:9

I was alive before I knew the law. But when the law’s command came to me, then sin began to live,