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she will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”
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and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.
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If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.
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And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.
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And behold, they brought to him a paralytic, lying on his bed; and when Jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic, “Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven.”
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For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’?
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But that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he then said to the paralytic—“Rise, take up your bed and go home.”
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And as he sat at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.
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And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
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Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
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the Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.”
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Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.
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Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they had not much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil,
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but when the sun rose they were scorched; and since they had no root they withered away.
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This was to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world.”
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The Son of man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all evildoers,
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but when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, “Lord, save me.”
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Temptations to Sin
“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me;
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but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened round his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.
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“Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the man by whom the temptation comes!
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And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; it is better for you to enter life maimed or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire.
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And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away; it is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire.
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Reproving Another Who Sins
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
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Forgiveness
Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?”
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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.
