Luke 5:31-
32 And Jesus answering said unto them,
They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. ... I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Luke 15:4-
7 What
man of you,
having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? ... I say unto you, that likewise
joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons,
which need no repentance.
Luke 15:32 It
was meet that we should make merry, and be glad:
for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
Ezekiel 34:16 I will
seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up [
that which was] broken, and will strengthen that which was sick:
but I will destroy the fat and the strong;
I will feed them with judgment.
Matthew 1:21 And
she shall bring forth a son, and
thou shalt call his name
JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
Matthew 9:12-
13 But when Jesus heard [
that], he said unto them,
They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. ... 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.
Matthew 10:6 But
go rather to the
lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Matthew 15:24 But he answered and said,
I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Matthew 18:11 For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.
Romans 5:6 For when we were yet
without strength,
in due time Christ died for the
ungodly.
1 Timothy 1:13-
16 Who
was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious:
but I obtained mercy,
because I did [
it] ignorantly in unbelief. ... Howbeit
for this cause
I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth
all longsuffering,
for a pattern to them which should hereafter
believe on him to life everlasting.
Hebrews 7:25 Wherefore
he is able also to save them
to the uttermost that come unto God
by him, seeing he
ever liveth
to make intercession for them.
1 John 4:9-
14 In this
was manifested the love of God toward us, because that
God sent his
only begotten Son into the world, that
we might live through him. ... And
we have seen and do testify that
the Father sent the Son [
to be]
the Saviour of the world.