Mark 2:17
When Jesus heard this he said to them,“Those who are healthy don’t need a physician, but those who are sick do. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
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- Luke 5:31-32 : 31 Jesus answered them,“Those who are well don’t need a physician, but those who are sick do. 32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
- Matt 9:12-13 : 12 When Jesus heard this he said,“Those who are healthy don’t need a physician, but those who are sick do. 13 Go and learn what this saying means:‘I want mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
- Luke 19:10 : 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
- Luke 15:7 : 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 have no need to repent.
- 1 Tim 1:15-16 : 15 This saying is trustworthy and deserves full acceptance:“Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”– and I am the worst of them! 16 But here is why I was treated with mercy: so that in me as the worst, Christ Jesus could demonstrate his utmost patience, as an example for those who are going to believe in him for eternal life.
- Titus 3:3-7 : 3 For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another. 4 But“when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for mankind appeared, 5 he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us in full measure through Jesus Christ our Savior. 7 And so, since we have been justified by his grace, we become heirs with the confident expectation of eternal life.”
- Luke 15:10 : 10 In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”
- Luke 15:29 : 29 but he answered his father,‘Look! These many years I have worked like a slave for you, and I never disobeyed your commands. Yet you never gave me even a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends!
- Luke 16:15 : 15 But Jesus said to them,“You are the ones who justify yourselves in men’s eyes, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly prized among men is utterly detestable in God’s sight.
- Matt 18:10 : 10 The Parable of the Lost Sheep“See that you do not disdain one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.
- Isa 1:18 : 18 Come, let’s consider your options,” says the LORD.“Though your sins have stained you like the color red, you can become white like snow; though they are as easy to see as the color scarlet, you can become white like wool.
- Isa 55:7 : 7 The wicked need to abandon their lifestyle and sinful people their plans. They should return to the LORD, and he will show mercy to them, and to their God, for he will freely forgive them.
- John 9:34 : 34 They replied,“You were born completely in sinfulness, and yet you presume to teach us?” So they threw him out.
- John 9:40 : 40 Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked him,“We are not blind too, are we?”
- Acts 20:21 : 21 testifying to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.
- Acts 26:20 : 20 but I declared to those in Damascus first, and then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds consistent with repentance.
- Rom 5:6-8 : 6 For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 (For rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person perhaps someone might possibly dare to die.) 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
- Rom 5:20-21 : 20 Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more, 21 so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
- 1 Cor 6:9-9 : 9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals, 10 thieves, the greedy, drunkards, the verbally abusive, and swindlers will not inherit the kingdom of God. 11 Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
- Titus 2:14 : 14 He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.
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9 The Call of Matthew; Eating with Sinners As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax booth.“Follow me,” he said to him. So he got up and followed him.
10 As Jesus was having a meal in Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with Jesus and his disciples.
11 When the Pharisees saw this they said to his disciples,“Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
12 When Jesus heard this he said,“Those who are healthy don’t need a physician, but those who are sick do.
13 Go and learn what this saying means:‘I want mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
14 The Superiority of the New Then John’s disciples came to Jesus and asked,“Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”
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29 Then Levi gave a great banquet in his house for Jesus, and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others sitting at the table with them.
30 But the Pharisees and their experts in the law complained to his disciples, saying,“Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
31 Jesus answered them,“Those who are well don’t need a physician, but those who are sick do.
32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
33 The Superiority of the New Then they said to him,“John’s disciples frequently fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours continue to eat and drink.”
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15 As Jesus was having a meal in Levi’s home, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him.
16 When the experts in the law and the Pharisees saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples,“Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
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33 For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say,‘He has a demon!’
34 The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say,‘Look at him, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
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2 But the Pharisees and the experts in the law were complaining,“This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
3 So Jesus told them this parable:
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10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
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31 Which of the two did his father’s will?” They said,“The first.” Jesus said to them,“I tell you the truth, tax collectors and prostitutes will go ahead of you into the kingdom of God!
32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him. But the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe. Although you saw this, you did not later change your minds and believe him.
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18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say,‘He has a demon!’
19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say,‘Look at him, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”
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5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic,“Son, your sins are forgiven.”
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18 The Superiority of the New Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. So they came to Jesus and said,“Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don’t fast?”
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39 Jesus said,]“For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may gain their sight, and the ones who see may become blind.”
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9 Heal the sick in that town and say to them,‘The kingdom of God has come upon you!’
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7 Jesus said to him,“I will come and heal him.”
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27 The Call of Levi; Eating with Sinners After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax booth.“Follow me,” he said to him.
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12 Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him,“Teacher, what should we do?”
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9 Which is easier, to say to the paralytic,‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say,‘Stand up, take your stretcher, and walk’?
10 But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,”– he said to the paralytic–
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13 The tax collector, however, stood far off and would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said,‘God, be merciful to me, sinner that I am!’
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2 Just then some people brought to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic,“Have courage, son! Your sins are forgiven.”
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17 In this way what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah was fulfilled:“He took our weaknesses and carried our diseases.”
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7 And when the people saw it, they all complained,“He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”
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17 Healing and Forgiving a Paralytic Now on one of those days, while he was teaching, there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting nearby(who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem), and the power of the Lord was with him to heal.
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11 But when the crowds found out, they followed him. He welcomed them, spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and cured those who needed healing.
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2 and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.
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10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
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38 He replied,“Let us go elsewhere, into the surrounding villages, so that I can preach there too. For that is what I came out here to do.”
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2 Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.
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20 When Jesus saw their faith he said,“Friend, your sins are forgiven.”
21 Then the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to think to themselves,“Who is this man who is uttering blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
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49 But those who were at the table with him began to say among themselves,“Who is this, who even forgives sins?”
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24 So he answered,“I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
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56 and they went on to another village.
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36 I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.’