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
But it was meet to make merry, and rejoice; because this your brother was dead, and came to life again; and had been lost, and was found."
Luke 5:32
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
Matthew 18:13
And, if it happen that he find it, verily I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety and nine that have not gone astray.
Which
Luke 15:29
But he, answering, said to his father, 'Behold, so many years do I serve you; and, at no time, did I transgress a command of yours; and you never gave me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends.
Luke 16:15
And He said to them, "Ye are those who justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts; because that which is exalted among men is an abomination before God.
Luke 18:9
And He spake also this parable to some who had trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised the rest:
Romans 7:9
And I was alive apart from the law once; but, when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Philippians 3:6
as to zeal, persecuting the assembly: as to the righteousness which is in 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 observed from my youth."
Luke 19:10
for the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which is lost."