¶ Then resorted unto him all the publicans and sinners, for to hear him.
For if ye shall love them, which love you: what reward shall ye have? Do not the publicans even so?
And behold, there are last, which shall be first: And there are first which shall be last.
¶ And all the people that heard, and the publicans justified God, which were baptised in the baptism of Ihon.
¶ The law in the mean time entered in that sin should increase. And where abundance of sin was, there was more plenteousness of grace.
¶ This is a true saying, and by all means worthy to be received, that Christ Iesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief: