Mat 9:11, Act 15:10-11, Eph 2:3, 12 | ISV | STEP | The Pharisees saw this and said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Matthew 9:11

11 The Pharisees saw this and said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”Matt 11:19; Luke 5:30; 15:2; Gal 2:15

Acts 15:10-11

10 So why do you test God by putting on the disciples’ neck a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we could carry?Matt 23:4; Gal 5:1 11 We certainly believe that it is through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ that we are saved, just as they are.”Rom 3:24; Eph 2:8; Titus 2:11; 3:4-5

Ephesians 2:3

3 Indeed, all of us once behaved like ^{▼▼Or lived among} them in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of our flesh and senses. By nature we deserved wrath, ^{▼▼Lit. were children of wrath} just like everyone else.Ps 51:5; Rom 5:12, 14; Gal 5:16; Titus 3:3; 1Pet 4:3

Ephesians 2:12

12 At that time you were without Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel, ^{▼▼Or from the commonwealth of Israel} and strangers to the covenants of promise. You had no hope and were in the world without God.Ezek 13:9; John 10:16; Rom 9:4, 8; Gal 4:8; Eph 4:18; Col 1:21; Rom 9:4, 8, 1Thes 4:5, 13