Luke 15:7

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Luke 15:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible

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!’

7 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.’

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Luke 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.’”

Luke 5:32

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

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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.

Luke 15:29

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.

Luke 16:15

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.

Luke 18:9

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

Luke 18:10

“Two men went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like the other men—swindlers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.

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

Romans 7:9

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Philippians 3:7

But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.