Matthew 18:13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Psalm 147:11

but the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love.

Isaiah 53:11

Out of his anguish he shall see; he shall find satisfaction through his knowledge. The righteous one, my servant, shall make many righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.

Isaiah 62:5

For as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your builder marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.

Ezekiel 34:4

You have not strengthened the weak; you have not healed the sick; you have not bound up the injured; you have not brought back the strays; you have not sought the lost, but with force and harshness you have ruled them.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of his possession? He does not retain his anger forever because he delights in showing steadfast love.

Zephaniah 3:17

The Lord, your God, is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will renew you in his love; he will exult over you with loud singing

Matthew 18:12

What do you think? If a shepherd has a hundred sheep and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray?

Matthew 18:14

So it is not the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones should be lost.

1 Corinthians 13:6

it does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth.

James 2:13

For judgment will be without mercy to anyone who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.