Luke 15:7 “I tell you that in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over…”

Luke 15:7

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 ones who do not need to repent.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

American Standard Version

I say unto you, that even so there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine righteous persons, who need no repentance.

Geneva Bible 1599

I say vnto you, that likewise ioy shall be in heauen for one sinner that conuerteth, more then for ninetie and nine iust men, which neede none amendment of life.

Darby Translation

I say unto you, that thus there shall be joy in heaven for one repenting sinner, [more] than for ninety and nine righteous who have no need of repentance.

Young's Literal Translation

'I say to you, that so joy shall be in the heaven over one sinner reforming, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men, who have no need of reformation.

Bible in Basic English

I say to you that even so there will be more joy in heaven when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing, than for ninety-nine good men, who have no need of a change of heart.

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Cross references

“joy”

Luke 5:32 Luke 15:32 Matthew 18:13

Luke 5:32 · BSB

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

Luke 15:32 · BSB

But it was fitting to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”

Matthew 18:13 · BSB

And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he rejoices more over that one sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.

“which”

Proverbs 30:12 Luke 18:9–11 Luke 16:15 Romans 7:9 Luke 15:29 Philippians 3:6

Proverbs 30:12 · BSB

There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.

Luke 18:9–11 · BSB

To some who trusted in their own righteousness and viewed others with contempt, He also told this parable:

Luke 16:15 · BSB

So He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized among men is detestable before God.

Romans 7:9 · BSB

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

Luke 15:29 · BSB

But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

Philippians 3:6 · BSB

as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.

Also

Luke 15:10

Luke 15:10 · BSB

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

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6comes home, and calls together his friends and neighbors to tell them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost sheep!’

8Or what woman who has ten silver coins and loses one of them does not light a lamp, sweep her house, and search carefully until she finds it?

Read Luke 15