Luke 15:7

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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

It was fitting to celebrate and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.'"

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

And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray.

Which

but he answered his father, 'Look, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command, yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

And he said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt:

There are those who are clean in their own eyes but are not washed of their filth.

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

as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.

General references

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

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

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost."