12 Hearing them, he said: “Healthy people do not need a physician, but those who are ill do.+ 13 Go, then, and learn what this means: ‘I want mercy, and not sacrifice.’+ For I came to call, not righteous people, but sinners.”

31 In reply Jesus said to them: “Those who are healthy do not need a physician, but those who are ill do.+ 32 I have come to call, not righteous people, but sinners to repentance.”+

7 I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents+ than over 99 righteous ones who have no need of repentance.+

10 For the Son of man came to seek and to save what was lost.”+

15 This saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.+ Of these, I am foremost.+