Luke 15:7

Young's Literal Translation 1862

`I say to you, that so joy shall be in the heaven over one sinner reforming, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men, who have no need of reformation.

Cross References

Proverbs 30:12

A generation -- pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed.

Matthew 18:13

and if it may come to pass that he doth find it, verily I say to you, that he doth rejoice over it more than over the ninety-nine that have not gone astray;

Matthew 3:8

bear, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation,

Luke 15:10

`So I say to you, joy doth come before the messengers of God over one sinner reforming.'

Luke 15:29

and he answering said to the father, Lo, so many years I do serve thee, and never thy command did I transgress, and to me thou didst never give a kid, that with my friends I might make merry;

Luke 15:32

but to be merry, and to be glad, it was needful, because this thy brother was dead, and did live again, he was lost, and was found.'

Luke 15:6

and having come to the house, he doth call together the friends and the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, because I found my sheep -- the lost one.

Luke 15:8

`Or what woman having ten drachms, if she may lose one drachm, doth not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek carefully till that she may find?

Luke 16:15

and he said to them, `Ye are those declaring yourselves righteous before men, but God doth know your hearts; because that which among men is high, `is' abomination before God;

Luke 5:32

I came not to call righteous men, but sinners, to reformation.'

Romans 7:9

And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;