the Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.”
May this be the reward of my accusers from the Lord, of those who speak evil against my life!
A man of understanding sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.
for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.
For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
One sabbath when he went to dine at the house of a ruler who belonged to the Pharisees, they were watching him.
And when they saw it they all murmured, “He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”
(When they heard this all the people and the tax collectors justified God, having been baptized with the baptism of John;
Jesus also was invited to the marriage, with his disciples.
let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to edify him.
saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God for ever and ever! Amen.”