Luke 7:34

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

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.

They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.

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.”

but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation.”

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”

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

They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

saying, “You went in to uncircumcised men, and ate with them!”

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.

far above all rule, authority, power, dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.

The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him.

If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.

Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

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

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?”

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.

The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.

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

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

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.

who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life.”

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

But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.

For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn’t it he who sits at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said, “Not so, but he leads the multitude astray.”

So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.

A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ part stood up, and contended, saying, “We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let’s not fight against God!”

“We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.

“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?”

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

Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in this age, nor in that which is to come.

Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying,

Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”

When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,

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.

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.

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.

On one of those days, he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal them.

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

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment.

Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in, and sat at the table.

But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged 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.’ ”

Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the wedding.

But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified.

It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.

It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.

He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.

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.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.