Matthew 9:12-13
9:12 When
Jesus heard this he said, “Those who are healthy don’t need a physician, but those who are sick do.
9:13 Go and learn what this saying means: ‘
I want mercy and not sacrifice.’
For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Luke 5:31-32
5:31 Jesus
answered them, “Those who are well don’t need a physician, but those who are sick do.
5:32 I have not come
to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
Luke 15:7
15:7 I tell you, in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner
who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people
who have no need to repent.
Luke 15:29
15:29 but he answered
his father, ‘Look! These many years I have worked like a slave
for you, and I never disobeyed your commands. Yet
you never gave me even a goat
so that I could celebrate with my friends!
Luke 16:15
16:15 But
Jesus
said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in men’s eyes,
but God knows your hearts. For what is highly prized
among men is utterly detestable
in God’s sight.
John 9:34
9:34 They replied,
“You were born completely in sinfulness,
and yet you presume to teach us?”
So they threw him out.
John 9:40
9:40 Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked him, “We are not blind too, are we?”