Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.

Bible References

Justified

Luke 7:35
Yet wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”
Judges 1:7
Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table. God has repaid me for what I have done.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
Psalm 51:4
Against You—You alone—I have sinned
and done this evil in Your sight.
So You are right when You pass sentence;
You are blameless when You judge.
Romans 3:4
Absolutely not! God must be true, even if everyone is a liar, as it is written:

That You may be justified in Your words
and triumph when You judge.
Romans 10:3
Because they disregarded the righteousness from God and attempted to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted themselves to God’s righteousness.
Revelation 15:3
They sang the song of God’s servant Moses and the song of the Lamb:

Great and awe-inspiring are Your works,
Lord God, the Almighty;
righteous and true are Your ways,
King of the Nations.
Revelation 16:5
I heard the angel of the waters say:

You are righteous,
who is and who was, the Holy One,
for You have decided these things.

Being

Luke 3:12
Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they asked him, “Teacher, what should we do?”
Matthew 3:5
Then people from Jerusalem, all Judea, and all the vicinity of the Jordan were flocking to him,
Matthew 21:31
“Which of the two did his father’s will?”

“The first,” they said.

Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you!

General references

Matthew 19:30
But many who are first will be last, and the last first.
Mark 10:31
But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”
Luke 3:12
Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they asked him, “Teacher, what should we do?”
Luke 5:30
But the Pharisees and their scribes were complaining to His disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
Luke 7:35
Yet wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”
Luke 15:1
All the tax collectors and sinners were approaching to listen to Him.

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