Luke 15:7

¹⁰Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

³²I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

³²But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’”

¹³If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.

¹²There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

⁹He also spoke this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others: ¹⁰“Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector. ¹¹The Pharisee stood and prayed by himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men: extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

⁶concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

⁷However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.

⁹I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.

¹⁵He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

²⁹But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.