Luke 15:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and the Pharisees and the scribes were murmuring, saying -- This one doth receive sinners, and doth eat with them.'

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  • Matt 9:11 : 11 and the Pharisees having seen, said to his disciples, `Wherefore with the tax-gatherers and sinners doth your teacher eat?'
  • Luke 19:7 : 7 and having seen `it', they were all murmuring, saying -- `With a sinful man he went in to lodge!'
  • Acts 11:3 : 3 saying -- `Unto men uncircumcised thou didst go in, and didst eat with them!'
  • Gal 2:12 : 12 for before the coming of certain from James, with the nations he was eating, and when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision,
  • Luke 5:30 : 30 and the scribes and the Pharisees among them were murmuring at his disciples, saying, `Wherefore with tax-gatherers and sinners do ye eat and drink?'
  • Luke 7:34 : 34 the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and ye say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners;
  • Luke 7:39 : 39 And the Pharisee who did call him, having seen, spake within himself, saying, `This one, if he were a prophet, would have known who and of what kind `is' the woman who doth touch him, that she is a sinner.'
  • Luke 15:29-30 : 29 and he answering said to the father, Lo, so many years I do serve thee, and never thy command did I transgress, and to me thou didst never give a kid, that with my friends I might make merry; 30 but when thy son -- this one who did devour thy living with harlots -- came, thou didst kill to him the fatted calf.
  • 1 Cor 5:9-9 : 9 I did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers -- 10 and not certainly with the whoremongers of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, seeing ye ought then to go forth out of the world -- 11 and now, I did write to you not to keep company with `him', if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner -- with such a one not even to eat together;

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