Luke 15:1

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

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The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. And I am the foremost of sinners;

Again, when a wicked man turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is lawful and right, he shall save his life.

Law came in, to increase the trespass; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

(When they heard this all the people and the tax collectors justified God, having been baptized with the baptism of John;

And behold, 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 have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?