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 credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.
Matthew 6:1
"Be careful that you do not do your righteousness before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 9:10-11
And it happened as he sat in the house, it happened that many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.
Matthew 11:19
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Look, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.' But wisdom is justified by her actions."
Matthew 18:17
If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. If he refuses to hear the church also, let him be to you as a Gentile or 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 tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into the Kingdom of God before you.
Luke 15:1
Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.
Luke 18:13
But the tax collector, standing far away, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner.'
Luke 19:2
There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.
Luke 19:7
And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, "He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner."
1 Peter 2:20-23
For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.