But the tax-collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven, but struck his breast, and said, 'O God, have mercy on a sinner like me!'

Thomas answered him, "My Master and my God!"

"Believe in the Lord Jesus," they said, "and you and your household will be saved!"

but earnestly urged Greeks as well as Jews to turn to God in repentance and to believe in our Lord Jesus.

For if with your lips you acknowledge the message that Jesus is Lord, and with your mind you believe that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

or thieves or greedy??runkards, abusive people, robbers??ill not have any share in God's kingdom.

For it says in Scripture, "Here I lay a choice stone in Zion, a costly cornerstone; No one who believes in it will ever be disappointed!"

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves those who are his children.

When

I tell you, everyone who will acknowledge me before men, the Son of Man will acknowledge before the angels of God,

For if with your lips you acknowledge the message that Jesus is Lord, and with your mind you believe that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Thy

Did not the Christ have to suffer thus before entering upon his glory?"

trying to learn for what possible time the spirit of Christ within them in predicting the sufferings destined for Christ intended them and the glories that were to follow them.

General references

For it is always the one who asks who receives, and the one who searches who finds, and the one who knocks to whom the door opens.

There were two robbers crucified with him at the time, one at his right and one at his left.