Luke 15:7
I say to you that likewise joy shall be in Heaven over one sinner who repents, more than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.
Luke 5:32
I did not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners.
Luke 15:10
Likewise I say to you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.
Proverbs 30:12
There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their own filth.
Matthew 18:13
And if it happens that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices more over it than over the ninety and nine which did not stray.
Luke 15:29
And answering he said to his father, Lo, these many years I have served you, neither did I transgress your commandment at any time. And yet you never gave me a kid so that I might make merry with my friends.
Luke 15:32
It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; and 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 that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
Luke 18:9-11
And He spoke this parable to certain ones who trusted in themselves, that they were righteous, and despised others:
Romans 7:9
For I was alive without the law once. But when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
Philippians 3:6-7
concerning zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness in the Law, blameless.