Cross References

Luke 15:1

Bible in Basic English 1965

Now all the tax-farmers and sinners came near to give ear to him.

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Again, when the evil-doer, turning away from the evil he has done, does what is ordered and right, he will have life for his soul.

For if you have love for those who have love for you, what credit is it to you? do not the tax-farmers the same?

And the last will be first, and the first will be last.

And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:

It is a true saying, in which all may put their faith, that Christ Jesus came into the world to give salvation to sinners, of whom I am the chief: