Cross references
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.
Luke 15:7 has 10 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 10 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Luke 15:10 (43 votes) and Luke 5:32 (39 votes). 45 other verses point back to it. It links with 17 other books, from Deuteronomy 28 to Philippians 3.
Which verses does Luke 15:7 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Luke 15:1043 votes
In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”
- Luke 5:3239 votes
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
- Luke 15:3230 votes
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 18:1327 votes
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.
- Proverbs 30:1221 votes
There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.
- Luke 18:9–1119 votes
To some who trusted in their own righteousness and viewed others with contempt, He also told this parable: “Two men went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. …
- Philippians 3:6–717 votes
as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless. But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.
- Luke 16:1515 votes
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 7:915 votes
Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
- Luke 15:2914 votes
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.
Which verses point to Luke 15:7?
The 10 strongest of 45.