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
We had to celebrate and be happy. Your brother was dead. Now he is alive! He was lost and now he has been found!'
Luke 5:32
I did not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.
Matthew 18:13
When he finds it, I tell you he will be filled with more joy than he would have if he had stayed with the ninety-nine.
Which
Luke 15:29
He spoke to his father in anger. All these years I have worked like a slave for you. I have never disobeyed you. What have you given me? Not even a goat for me to have a feast with my friends!
Luke 16:15
Jesus said: You make yourselves look righteous to other people. God knows your hearts. The things considered of great value by people are worth nothing in God's sight.
Luke 18:9
He then spoke this illustration to some who trusted in themselves. They were very self-righteous. They looked down on others:
Proverbs 30:12
There is a generation pure in their own eyes, and yet not washed from their filthiness.
Romans 7:9
I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Philippians 3:6
as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
General references
Luke 5:32
I did not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.
Luke 18:21
The man replied: I have observed all these things from my youth.
Luke 19:10
The Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost.