Mat 9:13, Mar 2:17, Luk 5:32, 19:10, Rom 5:8, 1Ti 3:1, 4:9, 2Ti 2:11, Tit 3:8, 1Jo 3:5 | ISV | STEP | Go and learn what this means: ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call righteous people, but sinners.”

Matthew 9:13

13 Go and learn what this means: ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice.’ ^{▼▼Hos 6:6} For I did not come to call righteous people, but sinners.”Hos 6:6; Mic 6:6-8; Matt 12:7; 1Tim 1:15

Mark 2:17

17 When Jesus heard that, he said to them, “Healthy people don't need a physician, but sick ones do. I did not come to call righteous people, but sinners.”Matt 9:12-13; 18:11; Luke 5:31-32; 19:10; 1Tim 1:15

Luke 5:32

32 I have not come to call righteous people, but sinners, to repentance.”Matt 9:13; 1Tim 1:15

Luke 19:10

10 For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost.”Matt 10:6; 15:24; 18:11

Romans 5:8

8 But God demonstrates his love for us by the fact that Christ died for us while we were still sinners.John 15:13; 1Pet 3:18; 1John 3:16; 4:9-10

1 Timothy 3:1

1 Qualifications for Leaders in the Church

This saying is trustworthy: ^{▼▼This formula accompanied early Christian sayings on which full reliance could be placed.}Acts 20:28; Eph 4:12; Phil 1:1; 1Tim 1:15

The one who would an elder be,

A noble task desires he.

1 Timothy 4:9

9 This saying is trustworthy and deserves complete acceptance. ^{▼▼This formula accompanied early Christian sayings on which full reliance could be placed.}1Tim 1:15

2 Timothy 2:11

11 This saying is trustworthy: ^{▼▼This formula accompanied early Christian sayings on which full reliance could be placed.}Rom 6:5, 8; 2Cor 4:10; 1Tim 1:15

In dying with Christ, ^{▼▼Lit. him}

true life we gain. ^{▼▼Lit. we will live with him}

Titus 3:8

8 This saying is trustworthy. ^{▼▼This formula accompanied early Christian sayings on which full reliance could be placed.} I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have put their faith in God may devote themselves to good works. These things are good and helpful to other people.1Tim 1:15; Titus 1:9, 14; 2:14

1 John 3:5

5 You know that he was revealed to take away sins, ^{▼▼Other mss. read our sins} and there is not any sin in him.Isa 53:5-6, 11; 2Cor 5:21; 1Tim 1:15; Heb 1:3; 4:15; Isa 53:5-6, 11, 1Pet 2:22, 24; 1John 1:2