Isaiah 65:5

5who say, “Keep to yourself,
do not come near me, for I am too holy for you.”
aThese are a smoke in my nostrils,
a fire that burns all the day.

Matthew 11:19

19The Son of Man came beating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, ca friend of dtax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.”
Some manuscripts children (compare Luke 7:35)


Luke 5:30

30And the Pharisees and ftheir scribes grumbled at his disciples, saying, gWhy do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

Luke 15:1-2

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

1Now hthe tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. 2And the Pharisees and the scribes igrumbled, saying, j“This man receives sinners and keats with them.”

Luke 19:7

7And when they saw it, they all lgrumbled, “He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”

1 Corinthians 5:9-11

9I wrote to you in my letter mnot to associate with sexually immoral people— 10 nnot at all meaning othe sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, psince then you would need to go out of the world. 11But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone qwho bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one.

Galatians 2:15

Justified by Faith

15We ourselves are Jews by birth and not rGentile sinners;
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