But it was necessary to be merry and to rejoice, because your brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found.'"

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance."

And if he happens to find it, assuredly I say to you that he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which did not go astray.

So he answered and said to his father, 'Lo, so many years I have been serving you and I never transgressed your commandment; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends.

And He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. Because that which is exalted among men is an abomination before God.

Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised the others:

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank You that I am not like other men--swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

A wicked generation judge themselves to be just, but do not cleanse their way.

For I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, but I died.

with respect to zeal, persecuting the church; with respect to righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

But such things as were gain to me, these I have considered loss for the sake of Christ.