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Luke 15:1

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Tax collectors and sinners were all crowding around to listen to Jesus.

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And if wicked people start doing right, they will save themselves from punishment.

If you love only those people who love you, will God reward you for that? Even tax collectors love their friends.

There the ones who are now least important will be the most important, and those who are now most important will be least important.

Everyone had been listening to John. Even the tax collectors had obeyed God and had done what was right by letting John baptize them.

The Law came, so that the full power of sin could be seen. Yet where sin was powerful, God's kindness was even more powerful.

“Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.” This saying is true, and it can be trusted. I was the worst sinner of all!