Luke 15:7 Cross References - Common

⁷ I tell you that in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

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.

³² I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

¹⁰ In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents."

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.

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.'"

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.

⁹ Also he told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: ¹⁰ "Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. ¹¹ The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank you that I am not like other menextortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

⁹ I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

⁶ as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless. ⁷ But whatever was gain to me, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.