Matthew 5:46
"For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?"
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- Luke 6:32
"For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them."
Read in chapter → - 1 Peter 2:20
"For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God."
Read in chapter → - Matthew 9:10
"And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples."
Read in chapter → - Matthew 11:19
"The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children."
Read in chapter → - Luke 15:1
"Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him."
Read in chapter → - Matthew 18:17
"And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican."
Read in chapter → - Luke 18:13
"And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner."
Read in chapter → - Matthew 6:1
"Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven."
Read in chapter → - Matthew 21:31
"Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you."
Read in chapter → - Luke 19:7
"And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner."
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