Luke 15:7
I tell you that there's more joy in heaven over a sinner that repents than over ninety-nine good people who don't need to repent.
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Proverbs 30:12There are some who see themselves as pure but they're still filthy—they have not been washed.
Luke 5:32“I didn't come to call those who are living right to repentance—I came to call sinners.”
Luke 15:29He told his father, ‘Look, all these years I've served you, and never disobeyed you, but you never once gave me even a young goat so I could have a party with my friends.
Luke 16:15But Jesus told them, “You appear pious to people, but God knows what you're thinking. What people value highly is detested by God.
Romans 7:9I used to live without realizing what the law really meant, but when I understood the implications of that commandment, then sin came back to life, and I died.
Matthew Henry on Luke 15:2-11
The Lost Sheep and Piece of Silver. 1 Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. 2 And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them. 3 And he spake this parable unto them, saying, 4 What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? 5 And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 6 And when he cometh… Read the whole commentary →