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"I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”"
— Luke 5:32, NET Bible
“I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
“I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance. ”
“I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."”
“I came not to call the just, but sinners to penance.”
“I have come, not to get the upright, but sinners, so that they may be turned from their sins.”
“I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
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.
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?”
Jesus answered them,“Those who are well don’t need a physician, but those who are sick do.
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
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.”
So Jesus said to them,“You cannot make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you?
But those days are coming, and when the bridegroom is taken from them, at that time they will fast.”