Now all the tax collectors and sinners were drawing near to Jesus to listen to him.
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
And behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”
(When all the people heard this, including the tax collectors, they acknowledged the justice of God, because they had been baptized with the baptism of John.
Now the law came in so that the trespass might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded all the more,
This saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.