Luke 15:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Joy

Luke 15:32

Luke 5:32

Matthew 18:13

Which

General references

Luke 5:32

Luke 18:21

Luke 19:10

Bible References

Joy

But it was right to be glad and to have a feast; for this your brother, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away and has come back.

I have come, not to get the upright, but sinners, so that they may be turned from their sins.

And if he comes across it, truly I say to you, he has more joy over it than over the ninety-nine which have not gone out of the way.

Which

But he made answer and said to his father, See, all these years I have been your servant, doing your orders in everything: and you never gave me even a young goat so that I might have a feast with my friends:

And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God.

And he made this story for some people who were certain that they were good, and had a low opinion of others:

There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways.

And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death;

In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.

General references

I have come, not to get the upright, but sinners, so that they may be turned from their sins.

And he said, All these things I have done from the time when I was a boy.

For the Son of man came to make search for those who are wandering from the way, and to be their Saviour.