⁷ Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who ^(A)repents than over ninety-nine ^(B)righteous persons who need no repentance.

^32 (A)I have not come to call the righteous ^(B)but sinners ^(C)to repentance.”

¹⁰ Just so, I tell you, there is joy before ^(A)the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

³² It was fitting ^(A)to celebrate and be glad, for this your brother ^(B)was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.’”

¹³ And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray.

The Pharisee and the Tax Collector

⁹ He also told this parable to some ^(A)who trusted ^(B)in themselves that they were righteous, ^(C)and treated others with contempt: ¹⁰ “Two men ^(D)went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. ¹¹ The Pharisee, ^(E)standing by himself, prayed^{[a] (F)}thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

^6 (A)as to zeal, ^(B)a persecutor of the church; ^(C)as to righteousness under the law,^[a] blameless. ⁷ But ^(D)whatever gain I had, ^(E)I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.

⁹ I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.

¹⁵ And he said to them, “You are those who ^(A)justify yourselves before men, but ^(B)God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men ^(C)is an abomination in the sight of God.