Cross References

Luke 15:1

New English Translation

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming to hear him.

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When a wicked person turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will preserve his life.

For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Even the tax collectors do the same, don’t they?

But indeed, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”

(Now all the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice, because they had been baptized with John’s baptism.

Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,

This saying is trustworthy and deserves full acceptance: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” – and I am the worst of them!