¹⁵ This is a trustworthy saying, and everyone should accept it: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”—and I am the worst of them all.

¹⁷ When Jesus heard this, he told them, “Healthy people don’t need a doctor—sick people do. I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners.”

¹⁶ “For this is how God loved the world: He gave^[a] his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷ God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.

¹⁰ For the Son of Man^[a] came to seek and save those who are lost.”

⁴⁷ I will not judge those who hear me but don’t obey me, for I have come to save the world and not to judge it.

¹² But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.

³² I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners and need to repent.”

¹³ even though I used to blaspheme the name of Christ. In my insolence, I persecuted his people. But God had mercy on me because I did it in ignorance and unbelief.

²⁸ For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

⁵ And you know that Jesus came to take away our sins, and there is no sin in him.