Matthew 9:13

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Summary

But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

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John 10:34

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Matthew 18:11

Luke 15:1

Luke 19:10

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But he said to them, Have ye not read what David did, when he and those who were with him were hungry?

And he answering said, Have ye not read, that he who made them at the beginning, made them male and female?

Jesus saith to them, Did ye never read in the Scriptures, "The stone which the builders rejected, the same hath become the cornerstone; from the Lord did this come, and it is marvelous in our eyes?"

But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,

And concerning the dead, that they are raised, have ye not read in the book of Moses, at the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob"?

And he said to him, What is written in the Law? How readest thou?

Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your Law, "I said, ye are gods"?

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And Jesus hearing it, saith to them, They who are well do not need a physician, but they who are sick. I came not to call righteous men, but sinners.

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

And he spoke to them this parable, saying,

for the Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost.

As it is written: "There is none righteous, no, not one;

Know ye not, that wrongdoers shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

though formerly I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and a doer of outrage; but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly, in unbelief;

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And all the publicans and the sinners were drawing near to him, to hear him.

for the Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost.