Parallel Verses
Goodspeed New Testament
I have not come to invite the pious but the irreligious to repentance!"
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
I have not come to call righteous people, but sinners, to repentance."
A Conservative Version
I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.
American Standard Version
I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
I did not come to call those who are doing right to repent [i.e., to change their hearts and lives], but [only those who are] sinners."
Anderson New Testament
I have not come to call righteous men, but sinners, to repentance.
Bible in Basic English
I have come, not to get the upright, but sinners, so that they may be turned from their sins.
Common New Testament
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
Daniel Mace New Testament
I came not to call saints, but sinners to repentance. Then they ask'd him, how comes it that John's disciples,
Darby Translation
I am not come to call righteous persons, but sinful ones to repentance.
Godbey New Testament
I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
John Wesley New Testament
I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Julia Smith Translation
I came not to call the just, but the sinful to repentance.
King James 2000
I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance."
Modern King James verseion
I did not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I came not to call the righteous: but the sinners to repentance."
Moffatt New Testament
I have not come to call just men but sinners to repentance."
Montgomery New Testament
I am not come to call the righteous but sinners, to repentance."
NET Bible
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
New Heart English Bible
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
Noyes New Testament
I have not come to call righteous men, but sinners to repentance.
Sawyer New Testament
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to a change of mind.
The Emphasized Bible
I have not come to call, righteous, men, but, sinners, unto repentance.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
I came not to call righteous men, but sinners, to repentance.
Twentieth Century New Testament
I have not come to call the religious, but the outcast, to repent."
Webster
I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Weymouth New Testament
I have not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners."
Williams New Testament
It is not upright but sinful people that I have come to invite to repentance."
World English Bible
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
Worrell New Testament
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
Worsley New Testament
but sinners to repentance.
Youngs Literal Translation
I came not to call righteous men, but sinners, to reformation.'
Interlinear
Word Count of 37 Translations in Luke 5:32
Prayers for Luke 5:32
Verse Info
Context Readings
Levi Called To Follow Jesus
31 Jesus answered them, "It is not well people but the sick who have to have the doctor. 32 I have not come to invite the pious but the irreligious to repentance!" 33 They said to him, "John's disciples observe frequent fasts and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but your disciples eat and drink."
Cross References
Luke 15:7
I tell you, in just that way 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 15:10
In just that way, I tell you, there is joy among the angels of God over one sinful person who repents!"
Luke 24:47
and that repentance leading to the forgiveness of sins should be preached to all the heathen in his name.
Acts 5:31
God took him up to his right hand as our leader and savior, in order to give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.
Matthew 18:10
"Beware of feeling scornful of one single little child, for I tell you that in heaven their angels have continual access to my Father in heaven.
Mark 15:7
There was in prison a man called Barabbas, among some revolutionaries who in their outbreak had committed murder.
Mark 15:10
For he knew that the high priests had handed him over to him out of envy.
Luke 4:18-19
"The spirit of the Lord is upon me, For he has consecrated me to preach the good news to the poor, He has sent me to announce to the prisoners their release and to the blind the recovery of their sight, To set the down-trodden at liberty,
Luke 18:10-14
"Two men went up to the Temple to pray; one was a Pharisee and the other a tax-collector.
Luke 19:10
For the Son of Man has come to search for what was lost and to save it."
Acts 2:38
Peter said to them, "You must repent, and every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, in order to have your sins forgiven; then you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit,
Acts 3:19
So repent and turn to God, to have your sins wiped out, and happier times will come from the presence of the Lord,
Acts 3:26
It was to you that God first sent his servant after he had raised him from the dead, to bless you by making every one of you turn from his wickedness."
Acts 17:30
While God overlooked those times of ignorance, he now calls upon all men everywhere to repent,
Acts 20:21
but earnestly urged Greeks as well as Jews to turn to God in repentance and to believe in our Lord Jesus.
Acts 26:18-20
to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's control to God, so that they may have their sins forgiven and have a place among those who are consecrated through faith in me.'
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have any share in God's kingdom? Do not let anyone mislead you. People who are immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or given to unnatural vice
1 Timothy 1:15-16
It is a trustworthy saying, entitled to the fullest acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. And I am the foremost of them,
2 Timothy 2:25-26
correcting his opponents with gentleness; for God may possibly let them repent and acknowledge the truth,
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow about his promise, in the sense that some men think; he is really showing his patience with you, because he does not want any to perish, but wishes all men to be brought to repentance.