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"Teach me, and I will be quiet; show me where I have been wrong.
Job Chapter 6: Verse 24
"When will you end these speeches? Be sensible, and then we can talk.
Job Chapter 18: Verse 2
"My troubled thoughts prompt me to answer because I am greatly disturbed.
I hear a rebuke that dishonors me, and my understanding inspires me to reply.
Job Chapter 20: Verses 2 - 3
You use your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit.
You speak continually against your brother and slander your own mother's son.
Psalms Chapter 50: Verses 19 - 20
Let a righteous man strike me,it is a kindness; let him rebuke me,it is oil on my head. My head will not refuse it. Yet my prayer is ever against the deeds of evildoers;
Psalms Chapter 141: Verse 5
The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life, but a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit.
Proverbs Chapter 15: Verse 4
Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.
Proverbs Chapter 27: Verse 6
He who rebukes a man will in the end gain more favor than he who has a flattering tongue.
Proverbs Chapter 28: Verse 23
Do not pay attention to every word people say, or you may hear your servant cursing you-
for you know in your heart that many times you yourself have cursed others.
Ecclesiastes Chapter 7: Verses 21 - 22
While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew's house, many tax collectors and "sinners" came and ate with him and his disciples.
When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?"
On hearing this, Jesus said, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
Matthew Chapter 9: Verses 10 - 12
When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the "sinners" and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: "Why does he eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?"
Mark Chapter 2: Verse 16
"What are you arguing with them about?" he asked.
Mark Chapter 9: Verse 16
When a woman who had lived a sinful life in that town learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster jar of perfume,
and as she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them.
When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, "If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is,that she is a sinner."
Luke Chapter 7: Verses 37 - 39
Now the tax collectors and "sinners" were all gathering around to hear him.
But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, "This man welcomes sinners and eats with them."
Luke Chapter 15: Verses 1 - 2
The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men,robbers, evildoers, adulterers,or even like this tax collector.
I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.'
Luke Chapter 18: Verses 11 - 12
When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today."
So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly.
All the people saw this and began to mutter, "He has gone to be the guest of a 'sinner.' "
Luke Chapter 19: Verses 5 - 7
So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him
Acts Chapter 11: Verse 2
We want to avoid any criticism of the way we administer this liberal gift.
2 Corinthians Chapter 8: Verse 20
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