Cross References

Luke 15:1

Good News Translation

One day when many tax collectors and other outcasts came to listen to Jesus,

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When someone evil stops sinning and does what is right and good, he saves his life.

Why should God reward you if you love only the people who love you? Even the tax collectors do that!

Then those who are now last will be first, and those who are now first will be last.”

All the people heard him; they and especially the tax collectors were the ones who had obeyed God's righteous demands and had been baptized by John.

Law was introduced in order to increase wrongdoing; but where sin increased, God's grace increased much more.

This is a true saying, to be completely accepted and believed: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. I am the worst of them,