Matthew 9:13
But go and learn what this means, 'It is mercy that I desire, not sacrifice'; for I did not come to appeal to the righteous, but to sinners."
Matthew 12:7
And if you knew what this means, 'It is mercy I desire, not sacrifice', you would not have condemned those who are without guilt.
Mark 2:17
Jesus heard the words, and He said, "It is not the healthy who require a doctor, but the sick: I did not come to appeal to the righteous, but to sinners."
Matthew 3:2
"Repent," he said, "for the Kingdom of the Heavens is now close at hand."
Luke 5:32
I have not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners."
Matthew 3:8
Therefore let your lives prove your change of heart;
Matthew 4:17
From that time Jesus began to preach. "Repent," He said, "for the Kingdom of the Heavens is now close at hand."
Matthew 11:20-21
Then began He to upbraid the towns where most of His mighty works had been done--because they had not repented.
Matthew 12:3
"Have you never read," He replied, "what David did when he and his men were hungry?
Matthew 12:5
And have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath without incurring guilt?
Matthew 18:10-13
"Beware of ever despising one of these little ones, for I tell you that in Heaven their angels have continual access to my Father who is in Heaven.
Matthew 19:4
"Have you not read," He replied, "that He who made them 'made them' from the beginning 'male and female,
Matthew 21:28-32
"But give me your judgement. There was a man who had two sons. He came to the elder of them, and said, "'My son, go and work in the vineyard to-day.'
Matthew 21:42
"Have you never read in the Scriptures," said Jesus, "'The Stone which the builders rejected has been made the Cornerstone: this Cornerstone came from the Lord, and is wonderful in our eyes'?
Matthew 22:31-32
But as to the Resurrection of the dead, have you never read what God says to you,
Mark 12:26
But as to the dead, that they rise to life, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?'
Luke 10:26
"Go to the Law," said Jesus; "what is written there? how does it read?"
Luke 15:3-10
So in figurative language He asked them,
Luke 19:10
For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost."
Luke 24:47
and that proclamation would be made, in His name, of repentance and forgiveness of sins to all the nations, beginning in Jerusalem.
John 10:34
"Does it not stand written in your Law," replied Jesus, "'I said, you are gods'?
Acts 2:38
"Repent," replied Peter, "and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, with a view to the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 3:19
Repent, therefore, and reform your lives, so that the record of your sins may be cancelled, and that there may come seasons of revival from the Lord,
Acts 5:31
God has exalted Him to His right hand as Chief Leader and as Saviour, to give Israel repentance and forgiveness of sins.
Acts 11:18
This statement of Peter's silenced his opponents. They extolled the goodness of God, and said, "So, then, to the Gentiles also God has given the repentance which leads to Life."
Acts 17:30-31
Those times of ignorance God viewed with indulgence. But now He commands all men everywhere to repent,
Acts 20:21
and urging upon both Jews and Greeks the necessity of turning to God and of believing in Jesus our Lord.
Acts 26:18-20
that they may turn from darkness to light and from the obedience to Satan to God, in order to receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified through faith in Me.'
Romans 2:4-6
Or is it that you think slightingly of His infinite goodness, forbearance and patience, unaware that the goodness of God is gently drawing you to repentance?
Romans 3:10-24
Thus it stands written, "There is not one righteous man.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Do you not know that unrighteous men will not inherit God's Kingdom? Cherish no delusion here. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor any who are guilty of unnatural crime,
1 Timothy 1:13-16
though I was previously a blasphemer and a persecutor and had been insolent in outrage. Yet mercy was shown me, because I had acted ignorantly, not having as yet believed;
2 Timothy 2:25-26
He must speak in a gentle tone when correcting the errors of opponents, in the hope that God will at last give them repentance, for them to come to a full knowledge of the truth
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow in fulfilling His promise, in the sense in which some men speak of slowness. But He bears patiently with you, His desire being that no one should perish but that all should come to repentance.