Luke 15:7
"I say to you that even so there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, more than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance.
Luke 5:32
I am not come to call the righteous but sinners, to repentance."
Luke 15:10
"Even so I tell you there is joy in the presence of the angels for God over one sinner who repents."
Matthew 18:13
"And if he succeeds in finding it, I tell you solemnly that he rejoices over it more than over the ninety and nine that never strayed away.
Luke 15:29
"'All these years I have been slaving for you and never disobeyed a command of yours. Yet you never gave me even a kid so that I might make merry with my friends.
Luke 15:32
"'But it was fitting that we should make merry and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and is alive; he was lost and is found.'"
Luke 16:15
He said to them. "You are those that justify themselves in the eyes of men; but God knows you hearts; for that which is lofty in the eyes of men is abomination in the eyes of God.
Luke 18:9-11
Moreover he spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves because they were righteous, and looked down upon the rest.
Romans 7:9
Once I lived apart from the Law, myself; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;
Philippians 3:6-7
as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which comes through law, blameless.