Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures: 'The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?

Now as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God,

Now as for the dead being raised, have you not 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'?

He said to him, "What is written in the law? How do you understand it?"

Jesus answered, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, you are gods'?

I will

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

For I delight in faithfulness, not simply in sacrifice; I delight in acknowledging God, not simply in whole burnt offerings.

With what should I enter the Lord's presence? With what should I bow before the sovereign God? Should I enter his presence with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?

To call

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When Jesus heard this he said to them, "Those who are healthy don't need a physician, but those who are sick do. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

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

So Jesus told them this parable:

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost."

just as it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one,

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals,

even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I was treated with mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief,

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Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming to hear him.

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost."