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King James Version

Luke 5:32

I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Repentance;   Salvation;   The Topic Concordance - Healing;   Jesus Christ;   Repentance;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Matthew;   Repentance;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Drink;   Forgiveness;   Jesus Christ;   Lord's Supper, the;   Righteousness;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Luke, Gospel of;   Repentance;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Magnificat;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Call, Calling;   Character;   Endurance;   God (2);   Man (2);   Mark, Gospel According to;   Matthew ;   Sermon on the Mount;   Sinners;   Toleration, Tolerance;   1910 New Catholic Dictionary - physician, the;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Trinity;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
King James Version (1611)
I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
English Standard Version
I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance."
New American Standard Bible
"I have not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners."
New Century Version
I have not come to invite good people but sinners to change their hearts and lives."
Amplified Bible
"I did not come to call the [self-proclaimed] righteous [who see no need to repent], but sinners to repentance [to change their old way of thinking, to turn from sin and to seek God and His righteousness]."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance."
Legacy Standard Bible
I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance."
Berean Standard Bible
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance."
Contemporary English Version
I didn't come to invite good people to turn to God. I came to invite sinners."
Complete Jewish Bible
I have not come to call the ‘righteous,' but rather to call sinners to turn to God from their sins."
Darby Translation
I am not come to call righteous [persons], but sinful [ones] to repentance.
Easy-to-Read Version
I have not come to ask good people to change. I have come to ask sinners to change the way they live."
Geneva Bible (1587)
I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
George Lamsa Translation
I have not come to call the righteous, but the sinners to repentance.
Good News Translation
I have not come to call respectable people to repent, but outcasts."
Lexham English Bible
I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance."
Literal Translation
I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
American Standard Version
I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.
Bible in Basic English
I have come, not to get the upright, but sinners, so that they may be turned from their sins.
Hebrew Names Version
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
International Standard Version
I have not come to call righteous people, but sinners, to repentance."Matthew 9:13; 1 Timothy 1:15;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
I am not come to call the just, but the sinners, to repentance.
Murdock Translation
I came not to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I came not to call the ryghteous: but sinners to repentaunce.
English Revised Version
I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.
World English Bible
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Weymouth's New Testament
I have not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
for Y cam not to clepe iuste men, but synful men to penaunce.
Update Bible Version
I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.
Webster's Bible Translation
I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
New English Translation
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
New King James Version
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance."
New Living Translation
I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners and need to repent."
New Life Bible
I have not come to call good people. I have come to call sinners to be sorry for their sins and to turn from them."
New Revised Standard
I have come to call not the righteous but sinners to repentance."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I have not come to call, righteous, men, but, sinners, unto repentance.
Douay-Rheims Bible
I came not to call the just, but sinners to penance.
Revised Standard Version
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
I came not to call ye rightewes but synners to repentauce.
Young's Literal Translation
I came not to call righteous men, but sinners, to reformation.'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I am not come to call ye righteous, but sinners to repentauce.
Mace New Testament (1729)
I came not to call saints, but sinners to repentance. Then they ask'd him, how comes it that John's disciples,
Simplified Cowboy Version
I have not come to gather those who think they are show cattle, but the ones who know they are the mavericks, renegades, and strays. I've come to show them a better way of life riding for me."

Contextual Overview

27 And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me. 28 And he left all, rose up, and followed him. 29 And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them. 30 But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? 31 And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. 32 I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. 33 And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink? 34 And he said unto them, Can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? 35 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days. 36 And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Luke 4:18, Luke 4:19, Luke 15:7, Luke 15:10, Luke 18:10-14, Luke 19:10, Luke 24:47, Isaiah 55:6, Isaiah 55:7, Isaiah 57:15, Matthew 18:11, Mark 15:7, Mark 15:10, Acts 2:38, Acts 3:19, Acts 3:26, Acts 5:31, Acts 17:30, Acts 20:21, Acts 26:18-20, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, 1 Timothy 1:15, 1 Timothy 1:16, 2 Timothy 2:25, 2 Timothy 2:26, 2 Peter 3:9

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 8:22 - no physician Ezekiel 34:16 - seek that Matthew 4:17 - Repent Matthew 9:13 - to call Mark 2:17 - They that are whole Luke 7:37 - which John 8:11 - go

Cross-References

Genesis 5:4
And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:18
And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
Genesis 5:19
And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:22
And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:27
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
Genesis 5:28
And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
Genesis 6:10
And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 7:13
In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
Genesis 10:1
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
Genesis 10:21
Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I came not to call the righteous,.... Such as the Scribes and Pharisees were in their own apprehension, and in the esteem of others, who trusted in themselves, that they were righteous, and submitted not to the righteousness of Christ: these Christ came not to call by his grace, and therefore did not associate himself with them: but sinners to repentance; such as the publicans, and others, with them, were; and therefore he was chiefly with such, and chose to be among them: these he not only called to repentance by the outward ministry of the word, but brought them to it; he having power to bestow the grace of repentance, as well as to call to the duty of it; :-.

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 9:9-13.

Luke 5:29

Made him a great feast - This circumstance “Matthew,” or “Levi” as he is here called, has omitted in his own gospel. This fact shows how little inclined the evangelists are to say anything in favor of themselves or to praise themselves. True religion does not seek to commend itself, or to speak of what it does, even when it is done for the Son of God. It seeks retirement; it delights rather in the consciousness of doing well than in its being known; and it leaves its good deeds to be spoken of, if spoken of at all, by others. This is agreeable to the direction of Solomon Proverbs 27:2; “Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth.” This feast was made expressly for our Lord, and was attended by many publicans, probably people of wicked character; and it is not improbable that Matthew got them together for the purpose of bringing them into contact with our Lord to do them good. Our Saviour did not refuse to go, and to go, too, at the risk of being accused of being a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners, Matthew 11:19. But his motives were pure. In the thing itself there was no harm. It afforded an opportunity of doing good, and we have no reason to doubt that the opportunity was improved by the Lord Jesus. Happy would it be if all the “great feasts” that are made were made in honor of our Lord; happy if he would be a welcome guest there; and happy if ministers and pious people who attend them demeaned themselves as the Lord Jesus did, and they were always made the means of advancing his kingdom. But, alas! there are few places where our Lord would be “so unwelcome” as at great feasts, and few places that serve so much to render the mind gross, dissipated, and irreligious.


 
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