MT 5:17 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
MT 9:13 But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.
MT 10:34-36 Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn
"a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law -- a man's enemies will be the members of his own household."
MT 20:28 ...just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
MK 1:38 Jesus replied, "Let us go somewhere else -- to the nearby villages -- so I can preach there also. That is why I have come."
MK 2:17 <same as MT 9:13>
MK 10:45 <same as MT 20:28>
LK 4:18-19 "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."
LK 4:43 <same as MK 1:38>
LK 5:32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
LK 12:49-51 I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is completed! Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division.
LK 19:10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.
JN 3:17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
JN 6:38-40 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.
JN 9:39 Jesus said, "For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind."
JN 10:10b I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
JN 12:27 Now my heart is troubled, and what shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour.
JN 12:46 I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.
JN 18:37 "You are a king, then!" said Pilate. Jesus answered, "You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me."
1JN 3:8 He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work.
Mt 1:21-23 He will save his people from their sins... which means "God with us"