Matthew 5:46
For, if you love only those who love you, what reward will you have? Even the tax-gatherers do this!
Luke 6:32-35
If you love only those who love you, what thanks will be due to you? Why, even the outcast love those who love them!
Matthew 6:1
Take care not to perform your religious duties in public in order to be seen by others; if you do, your Father who is in Heaven has no reward for you.
Matthew 9:10-11
And, later on, when he was at table in the house, a number of tax-gatherers and outcasts came in and took their places at table with Jesus and his disciples.
Matthew 11:19
And now that the Son of Man has come, eating and drinking, they are saying 'Here is a glutton and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and outcasts!' And yet Wisdom is vindicated by her actions."
Matthew 18:17
If he refuses to listen to them, speak to the Church; and, if he also refuses to listen to the Church, treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax-gatherer.
Matthew 21:31-32
Which of the two sons did as his father wished?" " The second," they said. "I tell you," added Jesus, "that tax-gatherers and prostitutes are going into the Kingdom of God before you.
Luke 15:1
The tax-gatherers and the outcasts were all drawing near to Jesus to listen to him;
Luke 18:13
Meanwhile the tax-gatherer stood at a distance, not venturing even 'to raise his eyes to Heaven'; but he kept striking his breast and saying 'O God, have mercy on me, a sinner.'
Luke 19:2
There was a man there, known by the name of Zacchaeus, who was a commissioner of taxes and a rich man.
Luke 19:7
On seeing this, every one began to complain: "He has gone to stay with a man who is an outcast."
1 Peter 2:20-23
What credit can you claim when, after doing wrong, you take your punishment for it patiently? But, on the other hand, if, after doing right, you take your sufferings patiently, that does win the approval of God.