Luke 15:1

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming to hear him.

As Jesus was having a meal in Matthew's house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with Jesus and his disciples.

When a wicked person turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will preserve his life.

"What do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, 'Son, go and work in the vineyard today.'

Then Levi gave a great banquet in his house for Jesus, and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others sitting at the table with them.

(Now all the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God's justice, because they had been baptized with John's baptism.

But indeed, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last."

Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,

This saying is trustworthy and deserves full acceptance: "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners" -- and I am the worst of them!

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