Luke 15:1

New American Bible - revised edition

The tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to listen to him,

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This saying is trustworthy and deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Of these I am the foremost.

But if the wicked turn from the wickedness they did and do what is right and just, they save their lives;

The law entered in so that transgression might increase but, where sin increased, grace overflowed all the more,

(All the people who listened, including the tax collectors, and who were baptized with the baptism of John, acknowledged the righteousness of God;

For behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.” Herod’s Desire to Kill Jesus.

For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not the tax collectors do the same?