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• Matthew 5:46

  For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?

• Matthew 5:47

  If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?

• Matthew 9:9

  As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, “Follow me.” He got up and followed him.

• Matthew 9:11

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

• Matthew 10:3

  Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus; Lebbaeus, who was also called Thaddaeus;

• Matthew 11:19

  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.”

• Matthew 18:17

  If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

• Matthew 21:31

  Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.

• Matthew 21:32

  For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn’t even repent afterward, that you might believe him.

• Mark 2:14

  As he passed by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he arose and followed him.

• Luke 3:12

  Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, “Teacher, what must we do?”

• Luke 5:27

  After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, “Follow me!”

• Luke 7:29

  When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John’s baptism.

• Luke 18:9

  He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.

• Luke 18:10

  “Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.

• Luke 18:11

  The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

• Luke 18:12

  I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’

• Luke 18:13

  But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

• Luke 18:14

  I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

• Luke 19:2

  There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.

• Luke 19:3

  He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn’t because of the crowd, because he was short.

• Luke 19:4

  He ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was going to pass that way.

• Luke 19:5

  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.”

• Luke 19:6

  He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.

• Luke 19:7

  When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”

• Luke 19:8

  Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”

• Luke 19:9

  Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.

• Luke 19:10

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