Luke 18:13
But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
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Luke 18:13
But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
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Genesis 18:27
Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.
Genesis 32:10
I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.
Leviticus 26:41
I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,
Job 40:4
“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
Psalms 10:17
Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,
Psalms 51:5
Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.
Psalms 119:41
Let your loving kindness also come to me, Yahweh, your salvation, according to your word.
Psalms 130:3
If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
Ezekiel 36:32
I don’t do this for your sake,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Let it be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of Israel.”
Daniel 9:7
“Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.
Daniel 9:9
To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him.
Hosea 14:2
Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good; so we offer bulls as we vowed of our lips.
Luke 7:6
Jesus went with them. When he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, “Lord, don’t trouble yourself, for I am not worthy for you to come under my roof.
Luke 15:20
“He arose and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion, and ran, fell on his neck, and kissed him.
1 Corinthians 4:7
For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
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Exodus 25:17
You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its width.
Exodus 25:18
You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.
Exodus 25:21
You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the covenant that I will give you.
Romans 3:25
whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;
Romans 5:8
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Hebrews 9:5
and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can’t speak now in detail.
1 John 4:10
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
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1 Kings 8:14
The king turned his face around and blessed all the assembly of Israel; and all the assembly of Israel stood.
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1 Chronicles 23:30
and to stand every morning to thank and praise Yahweh, and likewise in the evening;
Daniel 6:10
When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.
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2 Samuel 12:13
David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.” Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.
Job 33:28
He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’
Psalms 51:1
Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
Psalms 69:13
But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.
Psalms 69:16
Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
Psalms 130:4
But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.
Psalms 130:7
Israel, hope in Yahweh, for there is loving kindness with Yahweh. Abundant redemption is with him.
Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.
Isaiah 64:5
You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time. Shall we be saved?
Jeremiah 3:13
Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,’ ” says Yahweh.
Ezekiel 16:62
I will establish my covenant with you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh;
Romans 5:21
that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 10:3
For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
Hebrews 8:12
For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more.”
Revelation 3:18
I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.
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Ecclesiastes 5:2
Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.
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Ezekiel 9:4
Yahweh said to him, “Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”
Ezekiel 9:6
Kill utterly the old man, the young man, the virgin, little children and women; but don’t come near any man on whom is the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.” Then they began at the old men who were before the house.
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Nahum 2:7
It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her servants moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.
Luke 23:27
A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.
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Zechariah 12:11
In that day there will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddo.
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Matthew 6:9
Pray like this: “ ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
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Matthew 6:10
Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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Isaiah 65:5
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.
Matthew 9:10
As he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.
Luke 5:30
Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”
Luke 7:29
When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John’s baptism.
Luke 7:34
The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
Luke 13:30
Behold, there are some who are last who will be first, and there are some who are first who will be last.”
Luke 15:1
Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.
Luke 15:2
The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”
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Zephaniah 3:11
In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out from among you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be arrogant in my holy mountain.
Luke 16:15
He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
Luke 17:12
As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance.
2 Peter 2:19
promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
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1 Kings 21:27
When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his body, fasted, lay in sackcloth, and went about despondently.
Ezra 10:1
Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly.
Job 42:1
Then Job answered Yahweh:
Psalms 38:18
For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.
Psalms 51:17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.
Psalms 138:6
For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.
Isaiah 61:1
The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,
Jeremiah 3:21
A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.
Hosea 6:1
“Come! Let’s return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.
Joel 2:17
Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”
Zechariah 12:10
I will pour on David’s house and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplication. They will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for his firstborn.
Mark 14:72
The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered the words that Jesus said to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” When he thought about that, he wept.
2 Corinthians 7:10
For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.
James 4:6
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
James 4:9
Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
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