Luke 15:7
Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinful person who repents than over ninety-nine upright people who do not need any repentance.
Luke 5:32
It is not upright but sinful people that I have come to invite to repentance."
Luke 15:10
Just so, I tell you, there is joy among the angels of God over one sinful person who repents!"
Matthew 18:13
And if he finds it, I solemnly say to you, he rejoices over it more than he does over the ninety-nine that did not get lost.
Luke 15:29
But he answered his father, 'See! I have served you all these years and have never disobeyed a command of yours, but you have never given me even a kid, so that I could celebrate with my friends.
Luke 15:32
But we just had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found.'"
Luke 16:15
Then He said to them, "You are the men who exhibit your uprightness before the public, but God knows your hearts. For what stands high in the sight of men is detestable in the sight of God.
Luke 18:9-11
To some people who were confident that they themselves were upright, but who scorned everybody else, He told the following story:
Romans 7:9
I was once alive when I had no connection with the law, but when the command came, sin revived, and then I died;
Philippians 3:6-7
by the standard set by zeal, I was a persecutor of the church, and measured by the uprightness reached by keeping the law, I was faultless.