Luke 15:7 Cross References - Mace

⁷ I tell you, that there shall likewise be greater joy in heaven for one sinner that repents, than for ninety nine just persons, that need no repentance.

¹³ and if he happen to find it, you may be sure he is more affected with that one, than with the ninety and nine which went not astray.

³² I came not to call saints, but sinners to repentance. Then they ask'd him, how comes it that John's disciples,

¹⁰ even so, I assure you, the angels in heaven rejoice, when any one sinner becomes a penitent.

²⁹ how many years have I serv'd you, without having ever disobey'd your orders? and yet you never bestow'd a kid upon me, to make merry with my friends:

³² but it was necessary to feast and rejoice, because your brother here was dead, and is again alive: he was lost and is now found.

¹⁵ but he said to them, you pretend to piety before men, which, however they may admire, is an abomination to God, who knows your real temper.

⁹ Then he propos'd this parable, concerning those who had a great opinion of their own justice, and look'd with contempt upon others. ¹⁰ two men went to the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, the other a Publican. ¹¹ the Pharisee in a standing posture pray'd thus by himself, O God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men, a robber, a cheat, an adulterer, or like that Publican.

⁹ then it was I once liv'd secure; but when the prohibition came, sin exerted it self, and I was in a dying condition:

⁶ if zeal is to be regarded, I persecuted the church; if the integrity prescrib'd by the law, I am without reproach; ⁷ these advantages I renounce for Christ,