Matthew 9:13

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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 replied, Have ye not read what David did, when he, and his attendants, were hungry? how he went into the house of God,

And He answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that He, who made them at first, made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother,

Then saith Jesus to them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, "The stone which the builders refused, is made the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?"

But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read what is spoken to you by God,

But as to the dead, that they are raised, have ye not read in the book of Moses, how God spake to him in the bush, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

He said to him, What is written in the law? How readest thou there?

Jesus replied, Is it not written in your law, "I have said, ye are gods?"

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for the Son of man came from thence to save that which was lost.

Which Jesus hearing, saith unto them, They that are in health have no need of a physician, but they that are ill: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.

but sinners to repentance.

But He spake to them this parable,

For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

"There is none righteous, no not one;

What! know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites,

who before was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and an oppressor. But I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief: and the grace of our Lord superabounded,

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for the Son of man came from thence to save that which was lost.

Then drew near unto Him all the publicans and other notorious sinners, to hear Him.

For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.