16 “The lost one I will search for,+ the stray I will bring back, the injured I will bandage, and the weak I will strengthen; but the fat one and the strong one I will annihilate. I will feed that one with judgment.”

13 Go, then, and learn what this means: ‘I want mercy, and not sacrifice.’+ For I came to call, not righteous people, but sinners.”

24 He answered: “I was not sent to anyone except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”+

8 But God recommends his own love to us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.+