Luke 15:7

New International Version

I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.

Cross References

Luke 5:32

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

Luke 15:10

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

Luke 15:32

But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ ”

Matthew 18:13

And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off.

Proverbs 30:12

those who are pure in their own eyes and yet are not cleansed of their filth;

Romans 7:9

Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

Luke 16:15

He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight.

Luke 15:29

But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

Matthew 3:8

Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.

Luke 15:6

and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’

Luke 15:8

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