World English Bible
"I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.""
— Luke 5:32, World English 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.”
Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.
Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?"
Jesus answered them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
They said to him, "Why do John's disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?"
He said to them, "Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast, while the bridegroom is with them?
But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days."