Luke 15:7
So, I tell you, there will be more rejoicing in Heaven over one outcast that repents, than over ninety-nine religious men, who have no need to repent.
Luke 5:32
I have not come to call the religious, but the outcast, to repent."
Luke 15:10
So, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of God's angels over one outcast that repents."
Matthew 18:13
And, if he succeeds in finding it, I tell you that he rejoices more over that one sheep than over the ninety-nine which did not stray.
Luke 15:29
'No,' he said to his father, 'look at all the years I have been serving you, without ever once disobeying you, and yet you have never given me even a kid, so that I might have a merry-making with my friends.
Luke 15:32
We could but make merry and rejoice, for here is your brother who was dead, and is alive; who was lost, and is found.'"
Luke 16:15
"You," said Jesus, "are the men who justify themselves before the world, but God can read your hearts; and what is highly esteemed among men may be an abomination in the sight of God.
Luke 18:9-11
Another time, speaking to people who were satisfied that they were religious, and who regarded every one else with scorn, Jesus told this parable--
Romans 7:9
There was a time when I myself, unconscious of Law, was alive; but when the Commandment was brought home to me, sin sprang into life, while I died!
Philippians 3:6-7
As to zeal, I was a persecutor of the Church; as to such righteousness as is due to Law, I proved myself blameless.