Mark 2:17

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

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.

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you wouldn’t have condemned the guiltless.

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

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.”

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

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

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

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.’ ”

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

But he answered, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

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

Produce your cause,” says Yahweh. “Bring out your strong reasons!” says the King of Jacob.

But he said to them, “Haven’t you read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him;

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

“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.

Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.

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

But about the dead, that they are raised; haven’t you read in the book of Moses, about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

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

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

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

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

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Yahweh’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

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

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!

and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”

The angel answered him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.

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

But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”

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

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

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

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

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

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

This saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance.

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

“Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let’s meet together for judgment.

Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, along with the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together. They will return as a great company.

His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

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.

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa was diseased in his feet. His disease was exceedingly great: yet in his disease he didn’t seek Yahweh, but just the physicians.

When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

“I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.” ’

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

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

But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

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.

They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.

Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.