Luke 15:7

The English Standar Version

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 clean in their own eyes but are not washed of their filth.

Matthew 18:13

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

Matthew 3:8

Bear fruit in keeping with repentance.

Luke 15:10

Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents."

Luke 15:29

but he answered his father, 'Look, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command, yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

Luke 15:32

It was fitting to celebrate and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.' "

Luke 15:6

And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his 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,[1] if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it?

Luke 16:15

And he said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Luke 5:32

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

Romans 7:9

I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.