Luke 15:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance: that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the foremost.

Again, when the wicked turn away from the wickedness they have committed and do what is lawful and right, they shall save their life.

But law came in, so that the trespass might increase, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

(And all the people who heard this, including the tax collectors, acknowledged the justice of God, having been baptized with John’s baptism.

Indeed, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”

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