Mark 2:17

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

When Jesus heard this, he told them, ‘It is not those who are well who need   a doctor,   but those who are ill.   I didn’t come to call the righteous,   but sinners.’

Cross References

Luke 15:7

I tell you, in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven   over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who don’t need repentance.

Luke 19:10

For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost.’

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked one abandon his way and the sinful one his thoughts; let him return to the  Lord, so that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will freely forgive.

John 9:40

Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things and asked him, ‘We aren’t blind too, are we? ’

Luke 15:10

I tell you, in the same way, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels   over one sinner who repents.’

Luke 15:29

But he replied to his father, “Look, I have been slaving many years for you, and I have never disobeyed your orders, yet you never gave me a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends.

Titus 2:14

He gave himself for us  to redeem us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for himself a people for his own possession,  eager to do good works.

Isaiah 1:18

‘Come, let’s settle this,’ says the Lord. ‘Though your sins are scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are crimson red, they will be like wool.

Acts 20:21

I testified to both Jews and Greeks about repentance towards God  and faith in our Lord Jesus.

Luke 16:15

And he told them, ‘You are the ones who justify   yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts.   For what is highly admired by people is revolting   in God’s sight.

Matthew 18:10

‘See to it that you don’t despise one of these little ones,   because I tell you that in heaven their angels   continually view the face of my Father in heaven.   ,

Acts 26:20

Instead, I preached to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem and in all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works worthy of repentance.

John 9:34

‘You were born entirely in sin,’  they replied, ‘and are you trying to teach us? ’ Then they threw him out.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is more deceitful than anything else, and incurable #– #who can understand it?