Luke 15:7

New Living Translation

In the same way, there is more joy in heaven over one lost sinner who repents and returns to God than over ninety-nine others who are righteous and haven’t strayed away!

Cross References

Proverbs 30:12

They are pure in their own eyes, but they are filthy and unwashed.

Matthew 18:13

And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he will rejoice over it more than over the ninety-nine that didn’t wander away!

Matthew 3:8

Prove by the way you live that you have repented of your sins and turned to God.

Luke 15:10

In the same way, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels when even one sinner repents.”

Luke 15:29

but he replied, ‘All these years I’ve slaved for you and never once refused to do a single thing you told me to. And in all that time you never gave me even one young goat for a feast with my friends.

Luke 15:32

We had to celebrate this happy day. For your brother was dead and has come back to life! He was lost, but now he is found!’”

Luke 15:6

When he arrives, he will call together his friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me because 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 entire house and search carefully until she finds it?

Luke 16:15

Then he said to them, “You like to appear righteous in public, but God knows your hearts. What this world honors is detestable in the sight of God.

Luke 5:32

I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners and need to repent.”

Romans 7:9

At one time I lived without understanding the law. But when I learned the command not to covet, for instance, the power of sin came to life,