Luke 15:7
I say unto you, that thus there shall be joy in heaven for one repenting sinner, more than for ninety and nine righteous who have no need of repentance.
Luke 5:32
I am not come to call righteous persons, but sinful ones to repentance.
Luke 15:10
Thus, I say unto you, there is joy before the angels of God for one repenting sinner.
Proverbs 30:12
there is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness;
Matthew 18:13
And if it should come to pass that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoices more because of it than because of the ninety and nine not gone astray.
Luke 15:29
But he answering said to his father, Behold, so many years I serve thee, and never have I transgressed a commandment of thine; and to me hast thou never given a kid that I might make merry with my friends:
Luke 15:32
But it was right to make merry and rejoice, because this thy brother was dead and has come to life again, and was lost and has been found.
Luke 16:15
And he said to them, Ye are they who justify themselves before men, but God knows your hearts; for what amongst men is highly thought of is an abomination before God.
Luke 18:9-11
And he spoke also to some, who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and made nothing of all the rest of men, this parable:
Romans 7:9
But I was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but I died.
Philippians 3:6-7
as to zeal, persecuting the assembly; as to righteousness which is in the law, found blameless;