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

Bible References

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But He said to them, "Did you never read what David did, when he and his soldiers became hungry?

And He answered, "Have you not read that the Creator at the beginning made them male and female,

Then Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures: 'That stone which the builders threw away has become the cornerstone; this is the work of the Lord and seems wonderful to us!'

But did you never read, on the resurrection of the dead, what God said to you,

But as to the rising of the dead, did 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'?

And He answered him, "What is written in the law? How does it read?"

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

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Jesus heard it, and said to them, "Not well but sick people have to send for the doctor. It is not upright but sinful people that I have come to invite."

It is not upright but sinful people that I have come to invite to repentance."

So He told them the following story:

For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the people that are lost."

as the Scriptures say: "Not a single human creature is upright,

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

though I once used to abuse, persecute, and insult Him. But mercy was shown me by Him, because I did it in ignorance and unbelief,

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Now all the tax-collectors and notorious sinners were crowding around Him to listen to Him.

For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the people that are lost."