Bible Verses About Publicans

And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me.

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And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.

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And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.

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The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.

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The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

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For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.

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And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?

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For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

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And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?

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And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them.

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Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said unto him, Master, what shall we do?

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And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.

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And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.

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Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.

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Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.

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Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;

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