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 it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.

Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, Lord, trouble not thyself: for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof;

And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, who stood at a distance.

And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up to the heavens.

Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

For innumerable evils have encompassed me: my iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart faileth me.

Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified towards thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.

O Lord, righteousness belongeth to thee, but to us confusion of faces, as at 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 whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.

Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men, brethren, what shall we do?

God

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.

I said, LORD, be merciful to me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness: according to the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious; long-suffering, and abundant in mercy and truth.

VAU. Let thy mercies come also to me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word.

If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:

Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

A sinner

I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

But the other answering, rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?

And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be white as snow, though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Thou meetest him that rejoiceth, and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.

But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

But God commendeth his love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

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

General references

But many that are first shall be last, and the last shall be first.

But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.

Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said to him, Master, what shall we do?

I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.