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 meet to make merry and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again ; and was lost, and is found.

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

And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth over it more than over the ninety and nine which have not gone astray.

Which

But he answered and said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, and I never transgressed a commandment of thine; and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:

And he said unto them, Ye are they that justify yourselves in the sight of men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

And he spake also this parable unto certain who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and set all others at nought:

There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, And yet are not washed from their filthiness.

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

as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

General references

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

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

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