Matthew 5:46
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
Luke 6:32-35
"If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.
Matthew 6:1
"Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 9:10-11
And as Jesus reclined at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples.
Matthew 11:19
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds."
Matthew 18:17
If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
Matthew 21:31-32
Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Truly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes go into the kingdom of God before you.
Luke 15:1
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him.
Luke 18:13
But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!'
Luke 19:2
And there was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector and was rich.
Luke 19:7
And when they saw it, they all grumbled, "He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner."
1 Peter 2:20-23
For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God.