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Matthew 9:12-13
Now when he heard this, he said,“ It is not those who are well who need a doctor, but those who are sick.Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice. For I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
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Luke 5:31-32
Jesus replied to them,“ It is not those who are healthy who need a doctor, but those who are sick.I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
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Luke 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 don’t need repentance.
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Luke 19:10
For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost.”
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1 Timothy 1 15-1 Timothy 1 16
This saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance:“ Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”— and I am the worst of them.But I received mercy for this reason, so that in me, the worst of them, Christ Jesus might demonstrate his extraordinary patience as an example to those who would believe in him for eternal life.
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Titus 3:3-7
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for mankind appeared,he saved us— not by works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy— through the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit.He poured out his Spirit on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviorso that, having been justified by his grace, we may become heirs with the hope of eternal life.
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Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked one abandon his way and the sinful one his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, so he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will freely forgive.
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John 9:40
Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things and asked him,“ We aren’t blind too, are we?”
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Romans 5:20-21
The law came along to multiply the trespass. But where sin multiplied, grace multiplied even moreso that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness, resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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1 Corinthians 6 9-1 Corinthians 6 11
Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or males who have sex with males,no thieves, greedy people, drunkards, verbally abusive people, or swindlers will inherit God’s kingdom.And some of you used to be like this. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
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Luke 15:29
But he replied to his father,‘ Look, I have been slaving many years for you, and I have never disobeyed your orders, yet you never gave me a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends.
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Romans 5:6-8
For while we were still helpless, at the right time, Christ died for the ungodly.For rarely will someone die for a just person— though for a good person perhaps someone might even dare to die.But God proves his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
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Isaiah 1:18
“ Come, let’s settle this,” says the LORD.“ Though your sins are scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are crimson red, they will be like wool.
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Matthew 18:10
“ See to it that you don’t despise one of these little ones, because I tell you that in heaven their angels continually view the face of my Father in heaven.
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Luke 15:10
I tell you, in the same way, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”
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Luke 16:15
And he told them,“ You are the ones who justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly admired by people is revolting in God’s sight.
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John 9:34
“ You were born entirely in sin,” they replied,“ and are you trying to teach us?” Then they threw him out.
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Acts 26:20
Instead, I preached to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem and in all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works worthy of repentance.
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Acts 20:21
I testified to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.
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Titus 2:14
He gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for himself a people for his own possession, eager to do good works.