Luke 15:7
I tell you that in the same way there will be rejoicing in Heaven over one repentant sinner--more rejoicing than over ninety-nine blameless persons who have no need of repentance.
Luke 5:32
I have not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners."
Luke 15:10
"I tell you that in the same way there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one repentant sinner."
Matthew 18:13
And if he succeeds in finding it, in solemn truth I tell you that he rejoices over it more than he does over the ninety-nine that have not gone astray.
Luke 15:29
"'All these years,' replied the son, 'I have been slaving for you, and I have never at any time disobeyed any of your orders, and yet you have never given me so much as a kid, for me to enjoy myself with my friends;
Luke 15:32
We are bound to make merry and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and has come back to life, he was lost and has been found.'"
Luke 16:15
"You are they," He said to them, "who boast of their own goodness before men, but God sees your hearts; for that which holds a proud position among men is detestable in God's sight.
Luke 18:9-11
And to some who relied on themselves as being righteous men, and looked down upon all others, He addressed this parable.
Romans 7:9
Once, apart from Law, I was alive, but when the Commandment came, sin sprang into life, and I died;
Philippians 3:6-7
as to zeal, a persecutor of the Church; as to the righteousness which comes through Law, blameless.