Luke 15:7
'I say to you, that so joy shall be in the heaven over one sinner reforming, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men, who have no need of reformation.
Luke 5:32
I came not to call righteous men, but sinners, to reformation.'
Luke 15:10
'So I say to you, joy doth come before the messengers of God over one sinner reforming.'
Proverbs 30:12
A generation -- pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed.
Matthew 18:13
and if it may come to pass that he doth find it, verily I say to you, that he doth rejoice over it more than over the ninety-nine that have not gone astray;
Luke 15:29
and he answering said to the father, Lo, so many years I do serve thee, and never thy command did I transgress, and to me thou didst never give a kid, that with my friends I might make merry;
Luke 15:32
but to be merry, and to be glad, it was needful, because this thy brother was dead, and did live again, he was lost, and was found.'
Luke 16:15
and he said to them, 'Ye are those declaring yourselves righteous before men, but God doth know your hearts; because that which among men is high, is abomination before God;
Luke 18:9-11
And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile:
Romans 7:9
And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;
Philippians 3:6-7
according to zeal persecuting the assembly! according to righteousness that is in law becoming blameless!