Matthew 9:12

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Matthew 9:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible

10 Later, as Jesus was dining at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with Him and His disciples.

11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked His disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

12 On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.

13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

14 At that time John’s disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Why is it that we and the Pharisees fast so often, but Your disciples do not fast?”

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Psalms 6:2

Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.

Psalms 41:4

I said, “O LORD, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against You.”

Psalms 147:3

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

Jeremiah 17:14

Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for You are my praise.

Jeremiah 30:17

But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.”

Jeremiah 33:6

Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.

Hosea 14:4

I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.

Mark 2:17

On hearing this, Jesus told them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Luke 5:31

Jesus answered, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.

Luke 8:43

including a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.

Luke 9:11

But the crowds found out and followed Him. He welcomed them and spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and He healed those who needed healing.

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like the other men—swindlers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.

Luke 18:12

I fast twice a week and pay tithes of all that I acquire.’

Luke 18:13

But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’

Romans 7:9

Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

Romans 7:10

So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.

Romans 7:11

For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.

Romans 7:12

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

Romans 7:13

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

Romans 7:14

We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

Romans 7:15

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.

Romans 7:16

And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good.

Romans 7:17

In that case, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

Romans 7:18

I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

Romans 7:19

For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.

Romans 7:20

And if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

Romans 7:21

So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

Romans 7:22

For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.

Romans 7:23

But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.

Romans 7:24

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

Revelation 3:17

You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

Revelation 3:18

I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.