Bible Dictionary: Repentance: Christ Came to Call Sinners To

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Matthew 9:13
But go you and learn what that means, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
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The Call of Matthew - the Saviour's Welcome to Sinners - Rabbinic ...
... And so Christ came not to call the righteous but sinners - not to repentance, as
our common text erroneously puts it in Matthew 9:13, and Mark 2:17, [2391] but ...
/.../edersheim/the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xvii the call of.htm

Of the Feast at which it was Objected at once that Christ Ate with ...
... Luke, again, after the words, "I came not to ... but sinners," has added the term, "unto
repentance." This addition ... that sinners are loved by Christ, purely for ...
/.../augustine/the harmony of the gospels/chapter xxvii of the feast at.htm

An Appeal to Sinners
... Christ; and hence "this man receiveth sinners," but it is not said that he receiveth
any else. "He came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 4 1858/an appeal to sinners.htm

Repentance and Restitution.
... Christ said, He "came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
Are you a sinner? Then the call to repent is addressed to you. ...
/.../the way to god and how to find it/chapter vi repentance and restitution.htm

Infants Saved as Sinners.
... may be their true sense, which makes Christ adduce the ... But when He had said: "I came
not to call ... goes on to say: ""but sinners to repentance." Therefore it ...
/.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 24 xix infants saved as.htm

What Christ Himself Taught.
... For Christ called not the just nor the chaste to repentance, but the ungodly, and
the licentious, and the unjust; His words being, "I came not to call ...
/.../justin/the first apology of justin/chapter xv what christ himself taught.htm

Insensibility
... nor any of the better class of Adam's sons and daughters, but "sinner", that Christ
welcomes. He came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bonar/gods way of peace/chapter xi insensibility.htm

The Call and Feast of Levi
... He had called sinners to repentance. ... Christ's reason for seeking out the sick, the
lost, is ominous indeed ... whole have no need of a physician; He came not to ...
/.../chadwick/the gospel of st mark/chapter 2 13-17 the call and.htm

Regeneration by Faith. Of Repentance.
... lives, and continue it to the last. Christ came to call sinners, but to
call them to repentance. He was sent to bless the unworthy ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 3 regeneration by faith.htm

The Friend of Sinners
... Are you a sinner? Yes or no. If you say "No," then I have nothing to say to you;
Jesus Christ came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 8 1863/the friend of sinners.htm