Matthew 9:13 - The Scriptures 2009

¹³ But go and learn what this means, ‘I desire compassion and not offering.’ For I did not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy [that is, readiness to help those in trouble] and not sacrifice and sacrificial victims. For I came not to call and invite [to repentance] the righteous (those who are upright and in right standing with God), but sinners (the erring ones and all those not free from sin). [Hos. 6:6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ But go ye and learn what this meaneth, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice: for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.

Common English Bible

¹³ Go and learn what this means: I want mercy and not sacrifice. I didn’t come to call righteous people, but sinners.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ So then, go out and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the just, but sinners."

Matthew 9:13 Cross References

Mark 2:17

And hearing this, יהושע said to them, “Those who are strong have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners.”

Luke 19:10

For the Son of Aḏam has come to seek and to save what was lost.

Hosea 6:6

“For I delight in loving-commitment and not slaughtering, and in the knowledge of Elohim more than ascending offerings.

Luke 5:32

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

Matthew 12:7

“And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire compassion and not offering,’ you would not have condemned the blameless.

Proverbs 21:3

To do righteousness and right-ruling Is more acceptable to יהוה than a slaughtering.

2 Peter 3:9

יהוה is not slow in regard to the promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward us, not wishing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

Acts 3:19

“Repent therefore and turn back, for the blotting out of your sins, in order that times of refreshing might come from the presence of the Master,

Acts 11:18

And having heard this, they were silent, and praised Elohim, saying, “Then Elohim has indeed also given to the nations repentance to life.”

Matthew 3:2

and saying, “Repent, for the reign of the heavens has come near!”

Acts 5:31

Him, a Prince and a Saviour, Elohim has exalted to His right hand, to give repentance to Yisra’ĕl and forgiveness of sins.

Luke 24:47

and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in His Name to all nations, beginning at Yerushalayim.

Matthew 4:17

From that time יהושע began to proclaim and to say, “Repent, for the reign of the heavens has drawn near.”

Acts 2:38

And Kĕpha said to them, “Repent, and let each one of you be immersed in the Name of יהושע Messiah for the forgiveness of sins. And you shall receive the gift of the Set-apart Spirit.

Matthew 3:8

“Bear, therefore, fruits worthy of repentance,

Acts 20:21

witnessing to Yehuḏim, and also to Greeks: repentance toward Elohim and belief in our Master יהושע Messiah.

Matthew 21:42

יהושע said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejeted has become the chief corner-stone. This was from יהוה, and it is marvellous in our eyes’?

Matthew 12:3

But He said to them, “Have you not read what Dawiḏ did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him:

Mark 12:26

And concerning the dead, that they rise – have you not read in the book of Mosheh, at the bush, how Elohim spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the Elohim of Aḇraham, and the Elohim of Yitsḥaq, and the Elohim of Ya‛aqoḇ’?

John 10:34

יהושע answered them, “Is it not written in your own Torah, ‘I said, “You are elohim”’?

Matthew 19:4

And He answering, said to them, “Did you not read that He who made them at the beginning made them male and female,

Matthew 12:5

“Or did you not read in the Torah that on the Sabbath the priests in the Set-apart Place profane the Sabbath, and are blameless?

Luke 10:26

And He said to him, “What has been written in the Torah? How do you read it?”

Mark 12:33

“And to love Him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the being, and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbour as oneself, is more than all the ascending offerings and offerings.”

Luke 5:31

And יהושע answering, said to them, “Those who are well do not need a physician, but those who are sick.