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 trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.

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

Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

(When all the people heard this, and the tax collectors too, they declared God just,[7] 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 do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?