Luke 15:1 - English Majority Text Version 2009

¹ Now all the tax collectors and the sinners were drawing near to Him to hear Him.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ NOW THE tax collectors and [notorious and especially wicked] sinners were all coming near to [Jesus] to listen to Him.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Now all the publicans and sinners were drawing near unto him to hear him.

Common English Bible

¹ All the tax collectors and sinners were gathering around Jesus to listen to him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Now tax collectors and sinners were drawing near to him, so that they might listen to him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ NOW the publicans and sinners drew near unto him to hear him.

Luke 15:1 Cross References

Matthew 5:46

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Luke 13:30

And behold, there are last who shall be first, and there are first who shall be last."

Luke 7:29

And when all the people heard Him, even the tax collectors justified God, having been baptized with the baptism of John.

Romans 5:20

But [the] law came in alongside, so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace superabounded,

1 Timothy 1:15

Faithful is this word, and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.