Luke 18:13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven but was beating his breast and saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:13

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

His prayer, and how God received his entreaty, all his sin and his faithlessness, the sites on which he built high places and set up the sacred poles and the images, before he humbled himself, these are written in the records of the seers.

2 Chronicles 33:23

He did not humble himself before the Lord, as his father Manasseh had humbled himself, but this Amon incurred more and more guilt.

Ezra 9:6

and said, “O my God, I am too ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.

Job 42:6

therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”

Psalm 106:6

Both we and our ancestors have sinned; we have committed iniquity, have done wickedly.

Psalm 119:41

Let your steadfast love come to me, O Lord, your salvation according to your promise.

Psalm 130:7

O Israel, hope in the Lord! For with the Lord there is steadfast love, and with him is great power to redeem.

Psalm 25:11

For your name’s sake, O Lord, pardon my guilt, for it is great.

Psalm 25:7

Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O Lord!

Psalm 40:12

For evils have encompassed me without number; my iniquities have overtaken me until I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails me.

Psalm 41:4

As for me, I said, “O Lord, be gracious to me; heal me, 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 would rise and bow down, all of them, at the entrance of their tent.

Isaiah 1:18

Come now, let us argue it out, says the Lord: If your sins are like scarlet, will they become like snow? If they are red like crimson, will they become like wool?

Isaiah 6:5

And I said, “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”

Isaiah 66:2

All these things my hand has made, so all these things are mine, says the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look, to the humble and contrite in spirit who trembles at my word.

Ezekiel 16:63

in order that you may remember and be confounded and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I forgive you all that you have done, says the Lord God.

Daniel 9:5

we have sinned and done wrong, acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and ordinances.

Matthew 10:3

Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James son of Alphaeus and Thaddaeus;

Matthew 6:5

“And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward.

Matthew 9:13

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

Mark 11:25

“Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.”

Luke 17:12

As he entered a village, ten men with a skin disease approached him. Keeping their distance,

Luke 22:41

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

Luke 23:48

And when all the crowds who had gathered there for this spectacle saw what had taken place, they returned home, beating their breasts.

Luke 5:8

But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’s knees, saying, “Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!”

Acts 2:37

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and to the other apostles, “Brothers, what should we do?”

Romans 5:8

But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us.

2 Corinthians 7:11

For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves guiltless in the matter.

1 Timothy 1:15

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.

Hebrews 4:16

Let us therefore approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Hebrews 8:12

For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.”