Parallel Verses
Williams New Testament
It is not upright but sinful people that I have come to invite 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.
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.
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."
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
Images Luke 5:32
Prayers for Luke 5:32
Verse Info
Context Readings
Levi Called To Follow Jesus
31 But Jesus answered them, "Not well but sick people have to send for the doctor. 32 It is not upright but sinful people that I have come to invite to repentance." 33 After that they said to Him, "John's disciples rigidly practice fasting and offering up prayers; so do the Pharisees, but your disciples keep right on eating and drinking."
Cross References
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 15:10
Just so, I tell you, there is joy among the angels of God over one sinful person who repents!"
Luke 24:47
and that in His name repentance as the condition for the forgiveness of sins should be preached to all the nations. Beginning at Jerusalem
Acts 5:31
God has exalted to His right hand this very One as our Leader and Saviour, in order to give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.
Matthew 18:10
"Be careful not to look with scorn on a single one of these little children, for I tell you that in heaven their angels have uninterrupted access to my Father in heaven.
Mark 15:7
There was in prison a man named Barabbas, among some revolutionaries who in their uprising had committed murder,
Mark 15:10
For he knew that the high priests out of envy had turned Him over to him.
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 release to captives and recovery of sight to the blind; to send the downtrodden away in liberty and
Luke 18:10-14
"Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee, the other a tax-collector.
Luke 19:10
For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the people that are lost."
Acts 2:38
Peter said to them, "You must repent -- and, as an expression of it, let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ -- that you may have your sins forgiven; and then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,
Acts 3:19
So now repent and turn to Him, to have your sins wiped out, that times of revival may come from the presence of the Lord,
Acts 3:26
It was to you first that He sent His Servant, after raising Him from the dead, to bless you by causing every one of you to turn from his wicked ways."
Acts 17:30
Though God overlooked those times of ignorance, He now commands all men everywhere to repent,
Acts 20:21
but constantly and earnestly I urged Greeks as well as Jews to turn with repentance to God and to have faith in our Lord Jesus.
Acts 26:18-20
to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's power to God, so as to have their sins forgiven and have a possession among those that are consecrated by faith in me.'
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have a share in the kingdom of God? Stop being misled; people who are sexually immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or guilty of unnatural sexual vice
1 Timothy 1:15-16
It is a saying to be trusted and deserves our fullest acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; and I am the foremost of them.
2 Timothy 2:25-26
With gentleness he must correct his opponents, for God might grant them repentance that would lead them to a full knowledge of the truth,
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow about His promise, in the sense in which some think of slowness, but He is really dealing patiently with you, because He is not willing for any to perish but for all to have an opportunity to repent?