Luke 15:7
So, I tell you, there will be joy in heaven over a single sinner who repents, more than over ninety-nine good people who do not need to repent.
Luke 5:32
I have not come to call just men but sinners to repentance."
Luke 15:10
So, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over a single sinner who repents."
Matthew 18:13
And if he happens to find it, I tell you he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray.
Luke 15:29
but he replied, 'Look at all the years I have been serving you! I have never neglected any of your orders, and yet you have never given me so much as a kid, to let me make merry with my friends.
Luke 15:32
We could not but make merry and rejoice, for your brother here was dead and has come to life again, he was lost but he has been found.' "
Luke 16:15
So he told them, "You are the people who get men to think you are good, but God knows what your hearts are! What is lofty in the view of man is loathsome in the eyes of God.
Luke 18:9-11
He also told the following parable to certain persons who were sure of their own goodness and looked down upon everybody else.
Romans 7:9
I lived at one time without law myself, but when the command came home to me, sin sprang to life and I died;
Philippians 3:6-7
in point of ardour a persecutor of the church, immaculate by the standard of legal righteousness.