Luke 15:29

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

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

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.

Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ ”

and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

Jesus answered them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?

We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won’t be harmed by the second death.

They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth.

He said, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.” She said, “Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?”

There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”

Yahweh of Armies says: “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.”

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”

“It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no kind of work, whether native-born or a stranger who lives as a foreigner among you;

I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,

It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all these commandments before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.”

However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.

“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’

If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary of me, Israel.

For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.”

Yahweh says, “Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is near and my righteousness will soon be revealed.

I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.

For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you. He will call his servants by another name,

It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God,

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as we have, and lived?

Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.

Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves, walk in the flame of your fire, and among the torches that you have kindled. You will have this from my hand: you will lie down in sorrow.

“Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?

Then Peter answered, “Behold, we have left everything, and followed you. What then will we have?”

The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?”

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

She said, “No one, Lord.” Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.”

that no flesh should boast before God.

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy,

and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing and say, “Sit here in a good place;” and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”

But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, “I will go in to my wife’s room.” But her father wouldn’t allow him to go in.

‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.

who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.

and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies, and to the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?”

You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?

The young man said to him, “All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?”

saying, ‘These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’

“He also who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you didn’t sow, and gathering where you didn’t scatter.

When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.’ ”

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.

He said, “I have observed all these things from my youth up.”

for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn’t lay down, and reap that which you didn’t sow.’

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

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

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah, his daughter; and his sons were with his livestock in the field. Jacob held his peace until they came.