Luke 15:7

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

Cross References

Proverbs 30:12

There are those who are pure in their own eyes yet are not cleansed of their filthiness.

Matthew 18:13

And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray.

Matthew 3:8

Bear fruit worthy of repentance.

Luke 15:10

Just so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

Luke 15:29

But he answered his father, ‘Listen! For all these years I have been working like a slave for you, and I have never disobeyed your command; yet you have never given me even a young goat so that I might celebrate with my friends.

Luke 15:32

But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life; he was lost and has been 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 that was lost.’

Luke 15:8

“Or what woman having ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it?

Luke 16:15

So he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of others; but God knows your hearts; for what is prized by human beings is an abomination in the sight of God.

Luke 5:32

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

Romans 7:9

I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived