Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.