Luke 18:13

Modern English Version

“But the tax collector, standing at a distance, would not even lift his eyes to heaven, but struck his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner.’

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:13

Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” Nathan said to David, “Now the Lord has put away your sin; you shall not die.

2 Chronicles 33:19

And his prayer and how God received his entreaty, and all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and where he set up the Asherah poles and images before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the sayings of Hozai.

2 Chronicles 33:23

He did not humble himself before the Lord as his father humbled himself. But he increased his guilt all the more.

Ezra 9:6

and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities have expanded over our heads and our wrongdoing has grown up to the heavens.

Job 42:6

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

Psalm 106:6

We, like our fathers, have sinned; we have committed iniquity; we have behaved wickedly.

Psalm 119:41

Let Your mercies also come to me, O  Lord, Your salvation according to Your word.

Psalm 130:7

O Israel, hope in the Lord! For with the Lord there is mercy, and with Him is abundant redemption.

Psalm 25:11

For Your name’s sake, O  Lord, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.

Psalm 25:7

Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to Your lovingkindness remember me, for Your goodness’ sake, O  Lord.

Psalm 40:12

For innumerable evils have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head; therefore my heart fails me.

Psalm 41:4

I said, “Lord, be merciful to me; heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”

Exodus 33:10

When all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people rose up and worshipped, every man at the entrance of his tent.

Isaiah 1:18

Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Isaiah 6:5

And I said: “Woe is me! For I am undone because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts.”

Isaiah 66:2

For My hand made all those things, thus all those things have come to be, says the Lord. But to this man I will look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembles at My word.

Ezekiel 16:63

in order that you may remember, and be humiliated, and never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I am pacified toward you for all that you have done, says the Lord God.

Daniel 9:5

We have sinned and have committed iniquity and have done wickedly and have rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and from Your judgments.

Matthew 10:3

Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew, the tax collector; James, the son of Alphaeus; and Lebbaeus, whose name was Thaddaeus;

Matthew 6:5

“When you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.

Matthew 9:13

But go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

Mark 11:25

And when you stand praying, forgive if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father who is in heaven may also forgive you your sins.

Luke 17:12

As He entered a village, there met Him ten men who were lepers, who stood at a distance.

Luke 22:41

He withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, and He knelt down and prayed,

Luke 23:48

All the crowds who came together to that sight, witnessing what occurred, struck their chests and returned.

Luke 5:8

When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.”

Acts 2:37

When they heard this, they were stung in the heart and said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

Romans 5:8

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

2 Corinthians 7:11

For observe this very thing, which you became sorrowful in a godly way: What carefulness it produced in you, what vindication of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what intense desire, what zeal, what avenging of wrong! In all things you have proven yourselves to be innocent in this matter.

1 Timothy 1:15

This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst.

Hebrews 4:16

Let us then come with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Hebrews 8:12

For I will be merciful toward their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”