Matthew 18:13
Good News Translation
When he finds it, I tell you, he feels far happier over this one sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not get lost.

New Revised Standard Version
And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray.

Contemporary English Version
I am sure that finding it would make you happier than having the 99 that never wandered off.

New American Bible
And if he finds it, amen, I say to you, he rejoices more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not stray.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if it so be that he find it: Amen I say to you, he rejoiceth more for that, than for the ninety-nine that went not astray.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And if it so be that he find it: Amen I say to you, he rejoiceth more for that, than for the ninety-nine that went not astray.

he rejoiceth.

Psalm 147:11 The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him: and in them that hope in his mercy.

Isaiah 53:11 Because his soul hath laboured, he shall see and be filled: by his knowledge shall this my just servant justify many, and he shall bear their iniquities.

Isaiah 62:5 For the young man shall dwell with the virgin, and thy children shall dwell in thee. And the bridegroom shall rejoice over the bride, and thy God shall rejoice over thee.

Jeremiah 32:37-41 Behold I will gather them together out of all the lands to which I have cast them out in my anger, and in my wrath, and in my great indignation: and I will bring them again into this place, and will cause them to dwell securely. . . .

Micah 7:18 Who is a God like to thee, who takest away iniquity, and passest by the sin of the remnant of thy inheritance? he will send his fury in no more, because he delighteth in mercy.

Zephaniah 3:17 The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty, he will save: he will rejoice over thee with gladness, he will be silent in his love, he will be joyful over thee in praise.

Luke 15:5-10,23,24 And when he hath found it, lay it upon his shoulders, rejoicing? . . .

John 4:34-36 Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his work. . . .

James 2:13 For judgment without mercy to him that hath not done mercy. And mercy exalteth itself above judgment.

Context
The Parable of the Lost Sheep
12What think you? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them should go astray: doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the mountains, and goeth to seek that which is gone astray? 13And if it so be that he find it: Amen I say to you, he rejoiceth more for that, than for the ninety-nine that went not astray. 14Even so it is not the will of your Father, who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 34:4
The weak you have not strengthened, and that which was sick you have not healed, that which was broken you have not bound up, and that which was driven away you have not brought again, neither have you sought that which was lost: but you ruled over them with rigour, and with a high hand.

Matthew 18:12
What think you? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them should go astray: doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the mountains, and goeth to seek that which is gone astray?

Matthew 18:14
Even so it is not the will of your Father, who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.

1 Corinthians 13:6
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth with the truth:

Matthew 18:12
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