Luke 15:7

New International Reader's Version

I tell you, it will be the same in heaven. There will be great joy when one sinner turns away from sin. Yes, there will be more joy than for 99 godly people who do not need to turn away from their sins.

Cross References

Proverbs 30:12

Some are pure in their own eyes. But their dirty sins haven’t been washed away.

Matthew 18:13

What I’m about to tell you is true. If he finds that sheep, he is happier about the one than about the 99 that didn’t wander off.

Matthew 3:8

Live in a way that shows you have turned away from your sins.

Luke 15:10

I tell you, it is the same in heaven. There is joy in heaven over one sinner who turns away from sin.”

Luke 15:29

But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I’ve worked like a slave for you. I have always obeyed your orders. You never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

Luke 15:32

But we had to celebrate and be glad. This brother of yours was dead. And now he is alive again. He was lost. And now he is found.’ ”

Luke 15:6

and go home. Then he will call his friends and neighbors together. He will say, ‘Be joyful with me. I have found my lost sheep.’

Luke 15:8

“Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Won’t she light a lamp and sweep the house? Won’t she search carefully until she finds the coin?

Luke 16:15

Jesus said to them, “You try to make yourselves look good in the eyes of other people. But God knows your hearts. What people think is worth a lot is hated by God.

Luke 5:32

I have not come to get those who think they are right with God to follow me. I have come to get sinners to turn away from their sins.”

Romans 7:9

Before I knew about the law, I was alive. But then the commandment came. Sin came to life, and I died.