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

A sinner

General references

Bible References

Standing

When Simon Peter saw this he fell down at Jesus' knees. He said: Depart from me for I am a sinful man, O Lord.

Jesus went with them. As he approached the house, the centurion sent friends to him saying, Lord do not trouble yourself. I am not worthy that you should come under my roof.

Entering a village he met ten men suffering from a dreaded skin disease.

I said, O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face (praying) to you (being in your presence), my God: for our sins have increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven.

Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.

Countless evils have surrounded me. My sins have caught up with me so that I can no longer see. They outnumber the hairs on my head. I have lost heart (lost strength, courage and motivation).

Woe to me! I cried. I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips (a sinner) and I live among a people of unclean (filthy) lips (speech) (language). My eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of Hosts.

I will forgive all the wrongs you have done, but you will remember them and be too ashamed to open your mouth.' The Lord Jehovah has spoken.

O Jehovah, righteousness belongs to you! Shame belongs to us this day! To the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.

Now when they heard this, they were stabbed to the heart, and said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles: Men and brothers, what shall we do?

God

Do not remember the sins of my youth or my rebellious ways. O Jehovah, remember me in keeping with your loving kindness and your goodness.

I said: O Jehovah, be gracious to me! Heal me for I have sinned against you.

([[Psalm of David] when the prophet Nathan came to him after David's adultery with Bathsheba:]) Have mercy on me, O God, in keeping with your loving-kindness. According to your unlimited compassion, wipe out my transgressions.

But you, O Jehovah, are a compassionate and merciful God. You are patient, always faithful and ready to forgive.

May your loving kindnesses also come to me, O Jehovah, your salvation according to your promise.

If You, Jehovah, should record our sins, O Jehovah, who could stand?

We have sinned. We have dealt perversely. We have acted wickedly and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances.

Let us approach the throne of grace (loving-kindness) with confidence, that we may receive mercy, and find grace for help in time of need.

I will forgive their wickedness and I will remember their sins no more.'

A sinner

I will go to my father and say: 'Father I have sinned against God and against you.

The other rebuked him saying: Do you not respect God, seeing you are also condemned?

When he experienced distress, he begged Jehovah his God to be kind and humbled himself in front of the God of his ancestors.

We have sinned like our fathers! We have committed iniquity and have behaved wickedly.

Come now, let us reason together (make things right) (correct matters) between us! Says Jehovah. Though your sins are like scarlet, they will become as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they will become as white as wool.

You greeted the one who gladly does right and remembers your ways. You were angry because we sinned. We continued to sin for a long time. Can we still be saved?

You should learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice'; for I came, not to call the righteous, but sinners.

But God demonstrates (commends) his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Faithful is the saying, and worthy of acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am foremost.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

General references

Many who are first will be last. Some who are last will be first.

Many that are first will be last and the last first.

Tax collectors came to be baptized, and they asked him: Teacher, what must we do?

I did not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.