Parallel Verses

Sawyer New Testament

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to a change of mind.

New American Standard Bible

I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”

King James Version

I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Holman Bible

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

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

I did not come to call the [self-proclaimed] righteous [who see no need to repent], but sinners to repentance [to change their old way of thinking, to turn from sin and to seek God and His righteousness].”

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.

Goodspeed New Testament

I have not come to invite the pious but the irreligious 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.

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
I came
ἔρχομαι 
Erchomai 
come, go, , vr come
Usage: 424

not
οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032

to call
καλέω 
Kaleo 
call, bid, be so named, named ,
Usage: 106

the righteous
δίκαιος 
Dikaios 
Usage: 57

but
ἀλλά 
Alla 
but, yea, yet, nevertheless, howbeit, nay, therefore, save, not tr,
Usage: 461

ἁμαρτωλός 
Hamartolos 
Usage: 31

to
εἰς 
Eis 
into, to, unto, for, in, on, toward, against,
Usage: 1267

Devotionals

Devotionals about Luke 5:32

Images Luke 5:32

Prayers for Luke 5:32

Context Readings

Levi Called To Follow Jesus

31 And Jesus answered and said to them, The well need not a physician, but the ill. 32  I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to a change of mind. 33 And they said to him, The disciples of John fast much and make prayers; and likewise those of the Pharisees; but yours eat and drink.

Cross References

Luke 15:7

So, I tell you, there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner that changes his mind, more than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need a change of mind.

Luke 15:10

So, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner that changes his mind.

Luke 24:47

and that a change of mind and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

Acts 5:31

him has God exalted, a Prince and Saviour at his right hand, to give a change of mind to Israel and the forgiveness of sins.

Matthew 18:10

See that you despise not one of these little ones; for I tell you that their angels always behold the face of my Father in heaven.

Mark 15:7

And there was a man called Barabbas, bound with the insurgents, who had committed murder in a sedition.

Mark 15:10

For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him up from envy.

Luke 4:18-19

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor; he has sent me to proclaim a release to the captives, and a recovery of sight to the blind, to send the oppressed away free,

Luke 18:10-14

Two men went up to the temple to pray; one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.

Luke 19:10

for the Son of man has come to seek and save the lost.

Acts 2:38

And Peter said to them, Change your minds, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 3:19

Change your minds, therefore, and turn yourselves, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

Acts 3:26

God having raised up his servant has sent him to you first, to bless you by turning each [one of you] from your evil ways.

Acts 17:30

Overlooking therefore the times of ignorance, God now commands all men everywhere to change their minds,

Acts 20:21

testifying both to Jews and Greeks the change of mind to God, and the faith in our Lord Jesus.

Acts 26:18-20

to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among the sanctified by faith in me.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites,

1 Timothy 1:15-16

The word is true and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief;

2 Timothy 2:25-26

in meekness correcting the adversaries, that God may give them a change of mind to a knowledge of the truth,

2 Peter 3:9

The Lord is not slow in respect to his promise, as some men account slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to a change of mind.

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