Mark 2:17

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

And hearing, Jesus says to them, Those who are strong have no need of a physician, but those badly having illness. I did not come to call the righteous ones to repentance, but sinners.

Cross References

Isaiah 1:18

Come now and let us reason together, says Jehovah: Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they are red as the crimson, they shall be like wool.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked one forsake his way and the man of iniquity his thoughts, and let him turn back to Jehovah, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will multiply to pardon.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is incurable; who can know it?

Matthew 18:10

See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that their angels in Heaven continually look on the face of My Father in Heaven.

Luke 15:10

I say to you, So there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner repenting.

Luke 15:29

But answering, he said to the father, Behold, so many years I serve you, and I have never transgressed a command of you. And you never gave a goat to me, so that I might be merry with my friends.

Luke 15:7

I say to you that so is joy in Heaven over one sinner repenting, than over ninety nine righteous ones who have no need of repentance.

Luke 16:15

And He said to them, You are the ones justifying yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts; for the thing highly prized among men is an abomination before God.

Luke 19:10

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the thing having been lost.

John 9:34

They answered and said to him, You were born wholly in sins, and do you teach us? And they threw him out outside.

John 9:40

And those of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things, and said to Him, Are we also blind?

Acts 20:21

earnestly testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

Acts 26:20

but firstly to the ones in Damascus, and Jerusalem, and to all the region of Judea, and to the nations, I proclaimed the command to repent and to turn to God, practicing works worthy of repentance.

Titus 2:14

who gave Himself on our behalf, “that He might redeem us from all lawlessness” “and purify” “for Himself a people for Himself for possession,” zealous of good works. Psa. 130:8; Eze. 37:23; Deut. 14:2