Bible Verses About Publicans: Disreputable

For if ye loue them, which loue you, what rewarde shall you haue? Doe not the Publicanes euen the same?

And if ye be friendly to your brethren onely, what singular thing doe ye? doe not euen the Publicanes likewise?

And when the Pharises sawe that, they saide to his disciples, Why eateth your master with Publicanes and sinners?

The sonne of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Beholde a glutton and a drinker of wine, a friend vnto Publicanes and sinners: but wisedome is iustified of her children.

And if he refuse to heare them, tell it vnto the Church: and if he refuse to heare the Church also, let him be vnto thee as an heathen man, and a Publicane.

Whether of them twaine did the will of the father? They saide vnto him, The first. Iesus saide vnto them, Verely I say vnto you, that the Publicanes and the harlots goe before you into the kingdome of God.

The Pharise stoode and prayed thus with himselfe, O God, I thanke thee that I am not as other men, extortioners, vniust, adulterers, or euen as this Publican.