Isaiah 65:5
5who say, “Keep to yourself,do not come near me, for I am too holy for you.”
aThese are a smoke in my nostrils,
a fire that burns all the day.
Mark 2:7
7“Why does this man speak like that? bHe is blaspheming! cWho can forgive sins but God alone?”Luke 15:2-7
2And the Pharisees and the scribes dgrumbled, saying, e“This man receives sinners and feats with them.”3So he told them this parable: 4 g“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, hif he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine iin the open country, and jgo after the one that is lost, until he finds it? 5And when he has found it, khe lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 6And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for lI have found my sheep that was lost.’ 7Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who mrepents than over ninety-nine nrighteous persons who need no repentance.
Luke 18:11
11The Pharisee, ostanding by himself, prayed ▼▼Or standing, prayed to himself
qthus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. Luke 19:7
7And when they saw it, they all rgrumbled, “He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”Luke 19:10
10For sthe Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”1 Corinthians 2:15
15The tspiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.Hebrews 12:3
Do Not Grow Weary
3 uConsider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or vfainthearted.
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