Luke 15:7

Weymouth NT

I tell you that in the same way there will be rejoicing in Heaven over one repentant sinner–more rejoicing than over ninety-nine blameless persons who have no need of repentance.

Cross References

Matthew 18:13

And if he succeeds in finding it, in solemn truth I tell you that he rejoices over it more than he does over the ninety-nine that have not gone astray.

Matthew 3:8

Therefore let your lives prove your change of heart;

Luke 15:10

»I tell you that in the same way there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one repentant sinner.«

Luke 15:29

»`All these years,' replied the son, `I have been slaving for you, and I have never at any time disobeyed any of your orders, and yet you have never given me so much as a kid, for me to enjoy myself with my friends;«

Luke 15:32

We are bound to make merry and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and has come back to life, he was lost and has been found.'«

Luke 15:6

Then coming home he calls his friends and neighbours together, and says, `Congratulate me, for I have found my sheep–the one I had lost.'

Luke 15:8

»Or what woman who has ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully till she finds it?«

Luke 16:15

»You are they,« He said to them, »who boast of their own goodness before men, but God sees your hearts; for that which holds a proud position among men is detestable in God's sight.

Luke 5:32

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

Romans 7:9

Once, apart from Law, I was alive, but when the Commandment came, sin sprang into life, and I died;