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.
In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
But it was fitting to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and
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 ast
There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.
To some who trusted in their own righteousness and viewed others with contempt, He also told this parable:
as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.
Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
So He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized a
But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you