Matthew 9:13
Go and learn the meaning of this word, I care for mercy not for sacrifice. For I have not come to call just men but sinners."
Matthew 15:18-19
while what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart ??and that is what defiles a man.
Matthew 23:25-26
Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are filled with your rapacity and self-indulgence.
Mark 7:21
From within, from the heart of man, the designs of evil come: sexual vice, stealing, murder,
Mark 7:23
all these evils issue from within and they defile a man."
Luke 7:47
Therefore I tell you, many as her sins are, they are forgiven, for her love is great; whereas he to whom little is forgiven has but little love."
Luke 11:39-40
but the Lord said to him, "You Pharisees do clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but your inner life is filled with rapacity and malice.
Luke 15:10
So, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over a single sinner who repents."
Luke 15:24
for my son here was dead and he has come to life, he was lost and he is found.' So they began to make merry.
Acts 3:19
Repent then, and turn to have your sins blotted out, so that a breathing-space may be vouchsafed you,
Acts 8:21-22
You come in for no share or lot in this religion. Your heart is all wrong in the sight of God.
Acts 26:20
I announced to those at Damascus and at Jerusalem in the first instance, then all over the land of Judaea, and also to the Gentiles, that they were to repent and turn to God by acting up to their repentance.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
What! do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Realm of God? Make no mistake about it; neither the immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor catamites nor sodomites
Ephesians 1:6-8
redounding to the praise of his glorious grace bestowed on us in the Beloved,
1 Timothy 1:15-16
It is a sure word, it deserves all praise, that "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners"; and though I am the foremost of sinners,
James 1:15
then Desire conceives and breeds Sin, while Sin matures and gives birth to Death.
James 4:8-10
draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Romans 5:16-21
Nor is the free gift like the effect of the one man's sin; for while the sentence ensuing on a single sin resulted in doom, the free gift ensuing on many trespasses issues in acquittal.