All the tax collectors and sinners were approaching to listen to him.
This saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” #— #and I am the worst of them.
But if a wicked person turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will preserve his life.
The law came along to multiply the trespass. But where sin multiplied, grace multiplied even more
(And when all the people, including the tax collectors, heard this, they acknowledged God’s way of righteousness, because they had been baptized with John’s baptism.
Note this: Some who are last will be first, and some who are first will be last.”
For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?