Matthew 19:20
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“All these I have kept,” said the young man. “What do I still lack?”
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So the law became our guardian to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.
When they continued to question Him, He straightened up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to cast a stone at her.”
But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.
Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
In the same way, I tell you that there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous ones who do not need to repent.