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.
General references
Bible References
Joy
Luke 15:32
But we had to celebrate and be glad, because your brother was dead, and has come to life, and was lost and is found!' "
Luke 5:32
I have not come to invite the pious but the irreligious to repentance!"
Matthew 18:13
And if he happens to find it, I tell you he rejoices more over it than he does over the ninety-nine that did not stray.
Which
Luke 15:29
And he said to his father, 'Here I have served you all these years, and have never disobeyed an order of yours, and you have never given me a kid, so that I could entertain my friends.
Luke 16:15
And he said to them, "You are the men who parade your uprightness before people, but God knows your hearts. For what men consider great is detestable in the sight of God.
Luke 18:9
To some who were confident of their own uprightness, and thought nothing of others, he used this illustration:
Romans 7:9
I was once alive and without law, but when the command came, sin awoke and then I died;
Philippians 3:6
as to my zeal, I was a persecutor of the church; and by the Law's standard of uprightness, no fault could be found with me.
General references
Luke 5:32
I have not come to invite the pious but the irreligious to repentance!"
Luke 18:21
And he said, "I have obeyed all these commandments ever since I was a child."
Luke 19:10
For the Son of Man has come to search for what was lost and to save it."