Luke 7:37

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

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

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

Behold, the righteous shall be repaid in the earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;

It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen,” said Yahweh of Armies;

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.

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

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.”

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.

When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John’s baptism.

All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts.

The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

Even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.”

However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

Joshua said to Achan, “My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don’t hide it from me!”

There they cry, but no one answers, because of the pride of evil men.

They cried, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

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.

Therefore Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they will not be able to escape; and they will cry to me, but I will not listen to them.

When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”

Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!

Therefore I will also deal in wrath. My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. Though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.”

When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

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.”

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Fear took hold of all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and, “God has visited his people!”

The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”

For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?”

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

Some therefore of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” There was division among them.

Therefore Mary took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed Jesus’s feet and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.

If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.

This saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance.

This saying is trustworthy: “For if we died with him, we will also live with him.

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

He said to me, “These words are faithful and true. The Lord God of the spirits of the prophets sent his angel to show to his bondservants the things which must happen soon.”

Therefore you shall make images of your tumors and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his hand from you, from your gods, and from your land.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’

“ ‘ “Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and you became mine.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?”

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?

Jesus said these things, then lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;

For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?”

Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.

Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”

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

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

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.”

But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”

So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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