Luke 15:7
Just so, I tell you, 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
Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents."
Proverbs 30:12
There are those who are clean in their own eyes but are not washed of their filth.
Matthew 18:13
And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray.
Luke 15:29
but he answered his father, 'Look, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command, yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.
Luke 15:32
It was fitting to celebrate and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.'"
Luke 16:15
And he said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
Luke 18:9-11
He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt:
Romans 7:9
I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.
Philippians 3:6-7
as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.