Luke 15:7
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“In the same way, I tell you that there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous ones who do not need to repent.”
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“In the same way, I tell you that there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous ones who do not need to repent.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.”
King James Version · Public Domain“I say unto you, that even so there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine righteous persons, who need no repentance.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`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.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Luke 15:7 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Proverbs 30:12There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.
- Matthew 18:13And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he rejoices more over that one sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.
- Luke 5:32I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
- Luke 15:10In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”
- Luke 15:29But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.
- Luke 15:32But it was fitting to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”
- Luke 16:15So He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized among men is detestable before God.
- Luke 18:9To some who trusted in their own righteousness and viewed others with contempt, He also told this parable:
- Romans 7:9Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
- Philippians 3:6as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.
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