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Luke 15:7 (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.

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Proverbs 30:12 - [There is] a generation [that are] pure in their own eyes, and [yet] is not washed from their filthiness.
Matthew 18:13 - ‹And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that› [sheep], ‹than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.›
Luke 5:32 - ‹I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.›
Luke 15:10 - ‹Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.›
Luke 15:29 - ‹And he answering said to› [his] ‹father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:›
Luke 15:32 - ‹It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.›
Luke 16:15 - And he said unto them, ‹Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.›
Luke 18:9 - And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
Romans 7:9 - For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Philippians 3:6 - Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

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