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 needful to make merry and be glad, because this thy brother was dead, and became alive again, and was lost, and was found.

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

And if he happens to find it, truly I say to you, that he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that have not gone astray.

Which

But having answered, he said to his father, Lo, so many years do I serve thee, and I never passed by a commandment of thine, and yet thou never gave me a goat that I might be merry with my friends.

And he said to them, Ye are those who declare yourselves righteous in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. Because what is lofty among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

And he also spoke this parable to some of those who were persuaded in themselves that they were righteous, and disdained other men.

There is a generation who are pure in their own eyes, and [yet] are not washed from their filthiness.

And I was alive once apart from law, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

regarding zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness in law, having become blameless.

General references

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

And he said, All these things I have kept from my youth.

For the Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost.