Eat With Sinners

As he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples. — read the full passage →

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him. — read the full passage →

Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them. — read the full passage →

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. — read the full passage →

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.” — read the full passage →

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. — read the full passage →

He entered and was passing through Jericho. — read the full passage →

But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned. — read the full passage →

The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?”

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

Don’t be envious of evil men; neither desire to be with them:

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back. — read the full passage →

When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee’s house, and sat at the table. — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners; — read the full passage →

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife. — read the full passage →

When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was in the house. — read the full passage →

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. — read the full passage →

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

“We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners, — read the full passage →

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners; — read the full passage →

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. — read the full passage →

When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.” — read the full passage →

While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard—very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head. — read the full passage →

In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

“‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

Now while the multitude pressed on him and heard the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret. — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

He entered and was passing through Jericho. — read the full passage →

When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him. — read the full passage →

After he had finished speaking in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum. — read the full passage →

He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him. — read the full passage →

He went out again by the seaside. All the multitude came to him, and he taught them. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

For what have I to do with also judging those who are outside? Don’t you judge those who are within?

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’”

“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

He told them this parable.

They said to him, “Why do John’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?” — read the full passage →

For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

Then John’s disciples came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?” — read the full passage →

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin. — read the full passage →

who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

who did not sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”

who in time past were no people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry; — read the full passage →

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, — read the full passage →

For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision. — read the full passage →

But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation; — read the full passage →

If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

But in giving you this command, I don’t praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse. — read the full passage →

But if one of those who don’t believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.

Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord? — read the full passage →

Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →