Luke 15:7
It is the same. I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine good people who do not need to repent.
Luke 5:32
I did not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.
Luke 15:10
I tell you, it is the same for the angels of God who rejoice over one sinner who repents.
Proverbs 30:12
There is a generation pure in their own eyes, and yet not washed from their filthiness.
Matthew 18:13
When he finds it, I tell you he will be filled with more joy than he would have if he had stayed with the ninety-nine.
Luke 15:29
He spoke to his father in anger. All these years I have worked like a slave for you. I have never disobeyed you. What have you given me? Not even a goat for me to have a feast with my friends!
Luke 15:32
We had to celebrate and be happy. Your brother was dead. Now he is alive! He was lost and now he has been found!'
Luke 16:15
Jesus said: You make yourselves look righteous to other people. God knows your hearts. The things considered of great value by people are worth nothing in God's sight.
Luke 18:9-11
He then spoke this illustration to some who trusted in themselves. They were very self-righteous. They looked down on others:
Romans 7:9
I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Philippians 3:6-7
as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.