Luke 18:13

The tax collector, ashamed and grieved, simply begs God to be merciful to him, a sinner. This is the prayer God receives.

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• Ezra 9:6and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.
• 1 Jn 1:8–10If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
• 1 Tim 1:15This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst.
• Ps 41:4I said, “O LORD, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against You.”
• Heb 8:12For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”
• Luke 7:6–7So Jesus went with them. But when He was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends with the message: “Lord, do not trouble Yourself, for I am not worthy to have You come under my roof.
• Heb 4:16Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
• Luke 23:48And when all the people who had gathered for this spectacle saw what had happened, they returned home beating their breasts.
• Acts 2:37When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
• Rom 5:8But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
• Ps 25:11For the sake of Your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, for it is great.
• Luke 5:8When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees. “Go away from me, Lord,” he said, “for I am a sinful man.”
• Isa 6:5Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”
• Isa 64:5–6You welcome those who gladly do right, who remember Your ways. Surely You were angry, for we sinned. How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?
• Luke 23:40–43But the other one rebuked him, saying, “Do you not even fear God, since you are under the same judgment?
• Job 42:6Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
• Luke 15:18–21I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
• 2 Cor 7:11Consider what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what zeal, what vindication! In every way you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.
• Ps 51:1–3For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him after his adultery with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.
• Ps 25:7Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellious acts; remember me according to Your loving devotion, because of Your goodness, O LORD.
• Dan 9:18–19Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You because of our righteous acts, but because of Your great compassion.
• Isa 1:18“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.
• Jer 31:18–19I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.
• Ezek 16:63so that when I make atonement for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth because of your disgrace, declares the Lord GOD.”
• Rom 5:20–21The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
• Matt 9:13But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
• Ps 86:15–16But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.
• 2 Chr 33:19His prayer and how God received his plea, as well as all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself, they are indeed written in the Records of the Seers.
• 2 Chr 33:23but he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done; instead, Amon increased his guilt.
• Ps 106:6We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
• Dan 9:5we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances.
• Luke 17:12As He entered one of the villages, He was met by ten lepers. They stood at a distance
• Ps 130:7O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is loving devotion, and with Him is redemption in abundance.
• Ps 40:12For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.
• Dan 9:7–11To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but this day we are covered with shame—the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem, and all Israel near and far, in all the countries to which You have driven us because of our unfaithfulness to You.
• Ps 119:41May Your loving devotion come to me, O LORD, Your salvation, according to Your promise.
• 2 Chr 33:12–13And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.
• Ps 130:3–4If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?

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