Luke 15:7
5 And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders,
6 comes home, and calls together his friends and neighbors to tell them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost sheep!’
In the same way, I tell you that there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous ones who do not need to repent.
8 Or 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?
9 And when she finds it, she calls together her friends and neighbors to say, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost coin.’
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- In the same way, I tell you that there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous ones who do not need to repent.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- 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.
- ASV
- 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.
- DARBY
- 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.
- BLB
- I say to you⁺ that thus there will be joy in heaven over one sinner repenting, rather than over ninety-nine righteous ones who have no need of repentance.
- ÅB
- Jeg sier dere: Slik skal det være glede i himmelen over én synder som omvender seg, mere enn over ni og nitti rettferdige som ikke trenger til omvendelse.
- OTB
- Jeg sier dere, på samme måte vil det være mer glede i himmelen over én synder som omvender seg enn over nittini rettferdige som ikke trenger omvendelse.
- B1930
- Jeg sier eder: Således skal det være glede i himmelen over én synder som omvender sig, mere enn over ni og nitti rettferdige som ikke trenger til omvendelse.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Luke 15:10
In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”
Read in contextLuke 5:32
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
Read in contextLuke 15:32
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.’”
Read in contextMatthew 18:13
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.
Read in contextProverbs 30:12
There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.
Read in contextLuke 18:9–11
To some who trusted in their own righteousness and viewed others with contempt, He also told this parable:
Read in contextPhilippians 3:6–7
as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.
Read in contextRomans 7:9
Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
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