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Luke 5:32
I came not to call the just, but sinners to penance.
Luke 5:32 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
Luke 5:32 in other translations
I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
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In context
29 And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: And there was a great company of publicans and of others that were at table with them.
30 But the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying to his disciples: Why do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners?
31 And Jesus answering, said to them: They that are whole need not the physician: but they that are sick.
32 I came not to call the just, but sinners to penance.
33 And they said to him: Why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees in like manner; but thine eat and drink?
34 To whom he said: Can you make the children of the bridegroom fast whilst the bridegroom is with them?
35 But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them: then shall they fast in those days.
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