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
But wisdom is justified by all who are truly wise."
Romans 3:4
No, indeed; let us hold God to be true, though every man should prove to be false. As it stands written, "That Thou mayest be shown to be just in the sentence Thou pronouncest, and gain Thy cause when Thou contendest."
Romans 10:3
Ignorant of the righteousness which God provides and building their hopes upon a righteousness of their own, they have refused submission to God's righteousness.
Revelation 15:3
And they were singing the song of Moses, God's servant, and the song of the Lamb. Their words were, "Great and wonderful are Thy works, O Lord God, the Ruler of all. Righteous and true are Thy ways, O King of the nations.
Revelation 16:5
And I heard the angel of the waters say, "Righteous art Thou, who art and wast, the holy One, because Thou hast thus taken vengeance.

Being

Luke 3:12
There came also a party of tax-gatherers to be baptized, and they asked him, "Rabbi, what are we to do?"
Matthew 3:5
Then large numbers of people went out to him--people from Jerusalem and from all Judaea, and from the whole of the Jordan valley--
Matthew 21:31
Which of the two did as his father desired?" "The first," they said. "I solemnly tell you,' replied Jesus, "that the tax-gatherers and the notorious sinners are entering the Kingdom of God in front of you.

General references

Matthew 19:30
"But many who are now first will be last, and many who are now last will be first.
Mark 10:31
But many who are now first will be last, and the last, first."
Luke 3:12
There came also a party of tax-gatherers to be baptized, and they asked him, "Rabbi, what are we to do?"
Luke 5:30
This led the Pharisees and Scribes of their party to expostulate with His disciples and ask, "Why are you eating and drinking with these tax-gatherers and notorious sinners?"
Luke 7:35
But wisdom is justified by all who are truly wise."
Luke 15:1
Now the tax-gatherers and the notorious sinners were everywhere in the habit of coming close to Him to listen to Him;