It was right that we should make merry and rejoice, for your brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found.

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

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

So he answered and said to his father, Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; 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. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

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

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus to himself, God, I thank You that I am not like other men; extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.

There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, and yet is not washed from its excrement.

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

concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the Law, blameless.

But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss because of Christ.