Luke 18:13
The tax-farmer, on the other hand, keeping far away, and not lifting up even his eyes to heaven, made signs of grief and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
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Luke 18:13
The tax-farmer, on the other hand, keeping far away, and not lifting up even his eyes to heaven, made signs of grief and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
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Luke 18:11
The Pharisee, taking up his position, said to himself these words: God, I give you praise because I am not like other men, who take more than their right, who are evil-doers, who are untrue to their wives, or even like this tax-farmer.
Luke 18:12
Twice in the week I go without food; I give a tenth of all I have.
Luke 18:13
The tax-farmer, on the other hand, keeping far away, and not lifting up even his eyes to heaven, made signs of grief and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
Luke 18:14
I say to you, This man went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other: for everyone who makes himself high will be made low and whoever makes himself low will be made high.
Mark 11:25
And whenever you make a prayer, let there be forgiveness in your hearts, if you have anything against anyone; so that you may have forgiveness for your sins from your Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 6:5
And when you make your prayers, be not like the false-hearted men, who take pleasure in getting up and saying their prayers in the Synagogues and at the street turnings so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.
Revelation 3:17
For you say, I have wealth, and have got together goods and land, and have need of nothing; and you are not conscious of your sad and unhappy condition, that you are poor and blind and without clothing.
Revelation 3:18
If you are wise you will get from me gold tested by fire, so that you may have true wealth; and white robes to put on, so that your shame may not be seen; and oil for your eyes, so that you may see.
1 Kings 8:14
Then, turning his face about, the king gave a blessing to all the men of Israel; and they were all on their feet together.
1 Chronicles 23:30
They had to take their places every morning to give praise and make melody to the Lord, and in the same way at evening;
Daniel 6:10
And Daniel, on hearing that the writing had been signed, went into his house; (now he had windows in his room on the roof opening in the direction of Jerusalem;) and three times a day he went down on his knees in prayer and praise before his God, as he had done before.
Romans 10:3
Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God.
1 Corinthians 4:7
For who made you better than your brother? or what have you that has not been given to you? but if it has been given to you, what cause have you for pride, as if it had not been given to you?
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Luke 18:9
And he made this story for some people who were certain that they were good, and had a low opinion of others:
Luke 18:10
Two men went up to the Temple for prayer; one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-farmer.
Zephaniah 3:11
In that day you will have no shame on account of all the things in which you did evil against me: for then I will take away from among you those who were lifted up in pride, and you will no longer be lifted up with pride in my holy mountain.
Luke 16:15
And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God.
2 Peter 2:19
Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.
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Luke 15:18
I will get up and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes:
Luke 15:19
I am no longer good enough to be named your son: make me like one of your servants.
1 Timothy 1:15
It is a true saying, in which all may put their faith, that Christ Jesus came into the world to give salvation to sinners, of whom I am the chief:
Daniel 9:18
O my God, let your ear be turned and give hearing; let your eyes be open and see how we have been made waste and the town which is named by your name: for we are not offering our prayers before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercies.
1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.
1 John 1:9
If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.
1 John 1:10
If we say that we have no sin, we make him false and his word is not in us.
Daniel 9:5
We are sinners, acting wrongly and doing evil; we have gone against you, turning away from your orders and from your laws:
Luke 5:8
But Simon, when he saw it, went down at the knees of Jesus and said, Go away from me, O Lord, for I am a sinner.
Daniel 9:7
O Lord, righteousness is yours, but shame is on us, even to this day; and on the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and on all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off, in all the countries where you have sent them because of the sin which they have done against you.
Daniel 9:9
With the Lord our God are mercies and forgiveness, for we have gone against him;
Hosea 14:2
Take with you words, and come back to the Lord; say to him, Let there be forgiveness for all wrongdoing, so that we may take what is good, and give in payment the fruit of our lips.
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Jeremiah 31:18
Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God.
Jeremiah 31:19
Truly, after I had been turned, I had regret for my ways; and after I had got knowledge, I made signs of sorrow: I was put to shame, truly, I was covered with shame, because I had to undergo the shame of my early years.
Ezekiel 36:31
And at the memory of your evil ways and your wrongdoings, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of your evil-doings and your disgusting ways, O children of Israel.
Ezekiel 36:32
Not because of you am I doing it, says the Lord; let it be clear to you, and be shamed and made low because of your ways, O children of Israel.
Ezekiel 16:62
And I will make my agreement with you; and you will be certain that I am the Lord:
Ezekiel 16:63
So that, at the memory of these things, you may be at a loss, never opening your mouth because of your shame; when you have my forgiveness for all you have done, says the Lord.
Acts 2:37
Now when these words came to their ears their hearts were troubled, and they said to Peter and the other Apostles, Brothers, what are we to do?
Ezra 10:1
Now while Ezra was making his prayer and his statement of wrongdoing, weeping and falling down before the house of God, a very great number of men and women and children out of Israel came together round him: for the people were weeping bitterly.
Psalms 38:18
I will make clear my wrongdoing, with sorrow in my heart for my sin.
Hosea 6:1
Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help.
Zechariah 12:10
And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son.
2 Corinthians 7:10
For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death.
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Luke 23:48
And all the people who had come together to see it, when they saw the things which were done, went back again making signs of grief.
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Hebrews 2:17
Because of this it was necessary for him to be made like his brothers in every way, so that he might be a high priest full of mercy and keeping faith in everything to do with God, making offerings for the sins of the people.
1 John 2:2
He is the offering for our sins; and not for ours only, but for all the world.
Romans 3:25
Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment;
Romans 5:8
But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.
1 John 4:10
And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.
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Job 42:6
For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.
Ezra 9:6
I said, O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face to you, my God: for our sins are increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven.
Psalms 51:4
Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.
Psalms 51:5
Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.
Psalms 25:11
Because of your name, O Lord, let me have forgiveness for my sin, which is very great.
Isaiah 6:5
Then I said, The curse is on me, and my fate is destruction; for I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of armies.
Isaiah 64:6
For we have all become like an unclean person, and all our good acts are like a dirty robe: and we have all become old like a dead leaf, and our sins, like the wind, take us away.
Isaiah 53:6
We all went wandering like sheep; going every one of us after his desire; and the Lord put on him the punishment of us all.
Genesis 18:27
And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:
Genesis 32:10
I am less than nothing in comparison with all your mercies and your faith to me your servant; for with only my stick in my hand I went across Jordan, and now I have become two armies.
Job 40:4
Truly, I am of no value; what answer may I give to you? I will put my hand on my mouth.
Psalms 130:3
O Jah, if you took note of every sin, who would go free?
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Psalms 40:12
For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.
Psalms 130:4
But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be feared.
Isaiah 55:7
Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.
Isaiah 64:5
Will you not have mercy on him who takes pleasure in doing righteousness, even on those who keep in mind your ways? Truly you were angry, and we went on doing evil, and sinning against you in the past.
Jeremiah 3:13
Only be conscious of your sin, the evil you have done against the Lord your God; you have gone with strange men under every branching tree, giving no attention to my voice, says the Lord.
Luke 17:12
And when he went into a certain small town he came across ten men who were lepers, and they, keeping themselves at a distance,
Hebrews 8:12
And I will have mercy on their evil-doing, and I will not keep their sins in mind.
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2 Chronicles 33:12
And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,
2 Chronicles 33:13
And made prayer to him; and in answer to his prayer God let him come back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh was certain that the Lord was God.
2 Chronicles 34:27
And your heart was soft, and you made yourself low before God, on hearing his words about this place and its people, and with weeping and signs of grief have made yourself low before me, I have given ear to you, says the Lord God.
Isaiah 66:2
For all these things my hand has made, and they are mine, says the Lord; but to this man only will I give attention, to him who is poor and broken in spirit, fearing my word.
2 Kings 22:19
Because your heart was soft, and you made yourself low before me, when you had word of what I said against this place and its people, that they would become a waste and a curse, and you gave signs of grief, weeping before me: truly, I have given ear to you, says the Lord.
Psalms 34:18
The Lord is near the broken-hearted; he is the saviour of those whose spirits are crushed down.
1 Kings 21:29
Do you see how Ahab has made himself low before me? because he has made himself low before me, I will not send the evil in his life-time, but in his son's time I will send the evil on his family.
2 Chronicles 12:6
Then the chiefs of Israel and the king made themselves low and said, The Lord is upright.
2 Chronicles 33:19
And the prayer which he made to God, and how God gave him an answer, and all his sin and his wrongdoing, and the places where he made high places and put up pillars of wood and images, before he put away his pride, are recorded in the history of the seers.
1 Peter 5:5
And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low.
Psalms 10:17
Lord, you have given ear to the prayer of the poor: you will make strong their hearts, you will give them a hearing:
James 4:6
But he gives more grace. So that the Writings say, God is against the men of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low before him.
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Psalms 123:1
A Song of the going up. To you my eyes are lifted up, even to you whose seat is in the heavens.
John 11:41
So they took away the stone. And Jesus, looking up to heaven, said, Father, I give praise to you for hearing me.
John 17:1
Jesus said these things; then, lifting his eyes to heaven, he said, Father, the time has now come; give glory to your Son, so that the Son may give glory to you:
Psalms 121:1
A Song of the going up. My eyes are lifted up to the hills: O where will my help come from?
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Luke 15:20
And he got up and went to his father. But while he was still far away, his father saw him and was moved with pity for him and went quickly and took him in his arms and gave him a kiss.
Luke 15:21
And his son said to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes: I am no longer good enough to be named your son.
Job 33:27
He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin.
Job 33:28
He kept my soul from the underworld, and my life sees the light in full measure.
Proverbs 28:13
He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.
Leviticus 26:40
And they will have grief for their sins and for the sins of their fathers, when their hearts were untrue to me, and they went against me;
Leviticus 26:41
So that I went against them and sent them away into the land of their haters: if then the pride of their hearts is broken and they take the punishment of their sins,
1 Kings 8:47
And if they take thought, in the land where they are prisoners, and are turned again to you, crying out in prayer to you in that land, and saying, We are sinners, we have done wrong, we have done evil;
1 Kings 8:48
And with all their heart and soul are turned again to you, in the land of those who took them prisoners, and make their prayer to you, turning their eyes to this land which you gave to their fathers, and to the town which you took for yourself, and the house which I made for your name:
Psalms 51:3
For I am conscious of my error; my sin is ever before me.
2 Samuel 12:13
And David said to Nathan, Great is my sin against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, The Lord has put away your sin; death will not come on you.
Luke 7:6
And Jesus went with them. And when he was not far from the house, the man sent friends to him, saying, Lord, do not give yourself trouble: for I am not important enough for you to come into my house:
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Luke 23:42
And he said, Jesus, keep me in mind when you come in your kingdom.
Luke 23:43
And he said to him, Truly I say to you, Today you will be with me in Paradise.
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2 Corinthians 7:11
For you see what care was produced in you by this very sorrow of yours before God, what clearing of yourselves, what wrath against sin, what fear, what desire, what serious purpose, what punishment. In everything you have made it clear that you are free from sin in this business.
Job 42:1
And Job said in answer to the Lord,
Jeremiah 3:21
A voice is sounding on the open hilltops, the weeping and the prayers of the children of Israel; because their way is twisted, they have not kept the Lord their God in mind.
Joel 2:17
Let the priests, the servants of the Lord, be weeping between the covered way and the altar, and let them say, Have mercy on your people, O Lord, do not give up your heritage to shame, so that the nations become their rulers: why let them say among the peoples, Where is their God?
Zechariah 12:11
In that day there will be a great weeping in Jerusalem, like the weeping of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
Mark 14:72
And in the same minute, the cock gave a second cry. And it came to Peter's mind how Jesus had said to him, Before the cock's second cry, you will say three times that you have no knowledge of me. And at this thought he was overcome with weeping.
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Isaiah 57:15
For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
Matthew 5:3
Happy are the poor in spirit: for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.
Job 22:29
For God makes low those whose hearts are lifted up, but he is a saviour to the poor in spirit.
Luke 14:11
For every man who gives himself a high place will be put down, but he who takes a low place will be lifted up.
1 Kings 21:27
Hearing these words, Ahab, in great grief, put haircloth on his flesh and went without food, sleeping in haircloth, and going about quietly.
Psalms 51:17
The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.
Psalms 138:6
Though the Lord is high, he sees those who are low; and he has knowledge from far off of those who are lifted up.
Isaiah 61:1
The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;
Ezekiel 9:4
The Lord said to him, Go through the town, through the middle of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the brows of the men who are sorrowing and crying for all the disgusting things which are done in it.
Ezekiel 9:6
Give up to destruction old men and young men and virgins, little children and women: but do not come near any man who has the mark on him: and make a start at my holy place. So they made a start with the old men who were before the house.
James 4:9
Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.
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Matthew 21:31
Which of the two did his father's pleasure? They say, The first. Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that tax-farmers and loose women are going into the kingdom of God before you.
Matthew 21:32
For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you had no faith in him, but the tax-farmers and the loose women had faith in him: and you, when you saw it, did not even have regret for your sins, so as to have faith in him.
Luke 19:7
And when they saw it, they were all angry, saying, He has gone into the house of a sinner.
Matthew 9:10
And it came about, when he was in the house taking food, that a number of tax-farmers and sinners came and took their places with Jesus and his disciples.
Matthew 9:11
And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why does your Master take food with tax-farmers and sinners?
Luke 7:39
Now when the Pharisee in whose house he was saw it, he said to himself, This man, if he was a prophet, would be conscious what sort of woman this is who has put her hands on him, that she is a sinner.
Isaiah 65:5
Who say, Keep away, do not come near me, for fear that I make you holy: these are a smoke in my nose, a fire burning all day.
Luke 5:30
And the Pharisees and their scribes made protests against his disciples, saying, Why do you take food and drink with tax-farmers and sinners?
Luke 7:29
(And all the people, and the tax-farmers, to whom John had given baptism, when they had knowledge of these things, gave glory to God.
Luke 7:34
The Son of man came feasting, and you say, Here is a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners.
Luke 15:1
Now all the tax-farmers and sinners came near to give ear to him.
Luke 15:2
And the Pharisees and scribes were angry, saying, This man gives approval to sinners, and takes food with them.
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Romans 5:20
And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:
Romans 5:21
That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Psalms 51:1
To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Have pity on me, O God, in your mercy; out of a full heart, take away my sin.
Psalms 69:13
But as for me, let my prayer be made to you, O Lord, at a time when you are pleased; O God, give me an answer in your great mercy, for your salvation is certain.
Psalms 69:16
Give an answer to my words, O Lord; for your mercy is good: be turned to me, because of your great pity.
Psalms 119:41
VAU Let your mercies come to me, O Lord, even your salvation, as you have said.
Psalms 130:7
O Israel, have hope in the Lord; for with the Lord is mercy and full salvation.
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Exodus 25:17
And you are to make a cover of the best gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
Exodus 25:18
And at the two ends of the cover you are to make two winged ones of hammered gold,
Exodus 25:21
And put the cover over the ark, and in the ark the record which I will give you.
Hebrews 9:5
And over it were the winged ones of glory with their wings covering the mercy-seat; about which it is not possible now to say anything in detail.
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Ecclesiastes 5:2
Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great.
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Nahum 2:7
And the queen is uncovered, she is taken away and her servant-girls are weeping like the sound of doves, hammering on their breasts.
Luke 23:27
And a great band of people went after him, and of women making signs of grief and weeping for him.
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Matthew 6:9
Let this then be your prayer: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
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Matthew 6:10
Let your kingdom come. Let your pleasure be done, as in heaven, so on earth.
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Luke 13:30
And the last will be first, and the first will be last.
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