Luke 15:7
I tell you that in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.
Luke 5:32
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
Luke 15:10
In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents."
Matthew 18:13
And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices more over that sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.
Luke 15:29
But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have been serving you, and I never disobeyed your command; yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends.
Luke 15:32
It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.'"
Luke 16:15
He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
Luke 18:9-11
Also he told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
Romans 7:9
I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
Philippians 3:6-7
as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.