Matthew 5:46
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46 (A)For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
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Luke 6:32-35
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32 (A)“If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. 33 And if you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. 34 And (B)if you (C)lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount. 35 But (D)love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and (E)you will be sons of (F)the Most High, for (G)he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
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1 Peter 2:20-23
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20 For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But (A)if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God. 21 For (B)to this you have been called, (C)because Christ also suffered for you, (D)leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps. 22 (E)He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. 23 (F)When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, (G)but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.
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Matthew 11:19
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19 The Son of Man came (A)eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, (B)a friend of (C)tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.”[a]
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- Matthew 11:19 Some manuscripts children (compare Luke 7:35)
Luke 18:13
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13 But the tax collector, (A)standing far off, (B)would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but (C)beat his breast, saying, ‘God, (D)be merciful to me, a sinner!’
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Luke 15:1
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The Parable of the Lost Sheep
15 Now (A)the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him.
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Matthew 18:17
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17 If he refuses to listen to them, (A)tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, (B)let him be to you as (C)a Gentile and (D)a tax collector.
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Matthew 9:10-11
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10 And as Jesus[a] reclined at table in the house, behold, many (A)tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples. 11 And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, (B)“Why does your teacher eat with (C)tax collectors and sinners?”
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- Matthew 9:10 Greek he
Matthew 6:1
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Giving to the Needy
6 “Beware of (A)practicing your righteousness before other people in order (B)to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
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Luke 19:7
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7 And when they saw it, they all (A)grumbled, “He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”
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Luke 19:2
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2 And behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector and was rich.
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Matthew 21:31-32
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31 Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, (A)the tax collectors and (B)the prostitutes go into (C)the kingdom of God before you. 32 For John came to you (D)in the way of righteousness, and (E)you did not believe him, but (F)the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward (G)change your minds and believe him.
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