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 people who have no need of 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."
Proverbs 30:12
[There is] a generation [that is] pure in its own eyes, but from its filthiness it will not be cleansed.
Matthew 18:13
And if he happens to find it, truly I say to you that he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that did not wander away.
Luke 15:29
But he answered [and] said to his father, 'Behold, so many years I have served you, and have never disobeyed your command! And you never gave me a young goat so that I could celebrate with my friends!
Luke 15:32
But it was necessary to celebrate and to rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead, and is alive, and was lost, and is found!'"
Luke 16:15
And he said to them, "You are the ones who justify themselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts! For [what is] [considered] exalted among men [is] an abomination in the sight of God.
Luke 18:9-11
And he also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and looked down on {everyone else}:
Romans 7:9
And I was alive once, apart from the law, but [when] the commandment came, sin sprang to life
Philippians 3:6-7
according to zeal persecuting the church, according to the righteousness in the law being blameless.