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
It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.'"
Luke 5:32
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
Matthew 18:13
And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices more over that sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.
Which
Luke 15:29
But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have been serving you, and I never disobeyed your command; yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends.
Luke 16:15
He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
Luke 18:9
Also he told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
Romans 7:9
I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
Philippians 3:6
as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.
General references
Luke 5:32
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
Luke 18:21
And he said, "All these I have kept from my youth."
Luke 19:10
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost."