Luke 18:13

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Summary

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.

Standing

God

Hebrews 4:16

Hebrews 8:12

A sinner

General references

Bible References

Standing

When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' feet and said, "Leave me, Lord, because I am a sinful man."

Then Jesus started to go with them. But when He was not far from the house, the captain sent friends to say to Him, "My Lord, stop troubling yourself, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof.

And as He was going into one village, ten lepers met Him, who got up at some distance from Him,

When they heard this, they were stabbed to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?"

God

So let us continue coming with courage to the throne of God's unmerited favor to obtain His mercy and to find His spiritual strength to help us when we need it.

For I will be merciful to their deeds of wrong, and never, never any more will I recall their sins,'"

A sinner

I will get up and go to my father, and say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your opinion;

But the other one reproved him and said, "Do you not fear even God when you are suffering the same penalty?

Go, learn what this means, 'It is mercy and not sacrifice that I want.' It is not upright but sinful people that I have come to invite."

But God proves His love for us by the fact that Christ died for us while we were still sinners.

It is a saying to be trusted and deserves our fullest acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; and I am the foremost of them.

If we claim "We are already free from sin," we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in our hearts.

General references

But many who are first now will be last then, and many who are last now will be first then."

But many who are first now will be last then, and last now who will be first then."

Then even the tax-collectors came to be baptized, and said to him, "Teacher, what ought we to do?"

It is not upright but sinful people that I have come to invite to repentance."