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And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smotec upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.

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Jer. 31:19• ¹⁹Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after I knew myself, I smote upon my thigh. I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, for I bear the reproach of my youth. (Jer. 31:19)

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Luke 5:8• ⁸But Simon Peter, seeing it, fell at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord. (Luke 5:8)

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Luke 7:6‑7• ⁶And Jesus went with them. But already, when he was not far from the house, the centurion sent to him friends, saying to him, Lord, do not trouble thyself, for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof.
⁷Wherefore neither did I count myself worthy to come to thee. But say by a word and my servant shall be healed. (Luke 7:6‑7)

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Luke 17:12• ¹²And as he entered into a certain village ten leprous men met him, who stood afar off. (Luke 17:12)

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Ezra 9:6• ⁶and said: O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God; for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up to the heavens. (Ezra 9:6)

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Job 42:6• ⁶Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. (Job 42:6)

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Psa. 40:12• ¹²For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head: and my heart hath failed me. (Psa. 40:12)

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Isa. 6:5• ⁵And I said, Woe unto me! for I am undone; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts. (Isa. 6:5)

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Ezek. 16:63• ⁶³that thou mayest remember, and be ashamed, and no more open thy mouth because of thy confusion, when I forgive thee all that thou hast done, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 16:63)

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Dan. 9:7‑9• ⁷Thine, O Lord, is the righteousness, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, in all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their unfaithfulness in which they have been unfaithful against thee.
⁸O Lord, unto us is confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
⁹With the Lord our God are mercies and pardons, for we have rebelled against him; (Dan. 9:7‑9)

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Acts 2:37• ³⁷And having heard it they were pricked in heart, and said to Peter and the other apostles, What shall we do, brethren? (Acts 2:37)

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Luke 23:48• ⁴⁸And all the crowds who had come together to that sight, having seen the things that took place, returned, beating their breasts. (Luke 23:48)

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Jer. 31:18‑19• ¹⁸I have indeed heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus: Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised as a bullock not trained: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art Jehovah my God.
¹⁹Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after I knew myself, I smote upon my thigh. I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, for I bear the reproach of my youth. (Jer. 31:18‑19)

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2 Cor. 7:11• ¹¹For, behold, this same thing, your being grieved according to God, how much diligence it wrought in *you*, but what excusing of yourselves, but what indignation, but what fear, but what ardent desire, but what zeal, but what vengeance: in every way ye have proved yourselves to be pure in the matter. (2 Cor. 7:11)

God.

Psa. 25:7,11• ⁷Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions; according to thy loving-kindness remember thou me, for thy goodness' sake, Jehovah.
¹¹For thy name's sake, O Jehovah, thou wilt indeed pardon mine iniquity; for it is great. (Psa. 25:7,11)

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Psa. 41:4• ⁴As for me, I said, Jehovah, be gracious unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee. (Psa. 41:4)

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Psa. 51:1‑3• ¹To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Be gracious unto me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness; according to the abundance of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
²Wash me fully from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
³For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is continually before me. (Psa. 51:1‑3)

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Psa. 86:15‑16• ¹⁵But thou, Lord, art a *God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth.
¹⁶Turn toward me, and be gracious unto me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid. (Psa. 86:15‑16)

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Psa. 119:41• ⁴¹VAU. And let thy loving-kindness come unto me, O Jehovah,--thy salvation according to thy *word. (Psa. 119:41)

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Psa. 130:3‑4,7• ³If thou, Jah, shouldest mark iniquities, Lord, who shall stand?
⁴But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.
⁷Let Israel hope in Jehovah, because with Jehovah there is loving-kindness, and with him is plenteous redemption; (Psa. 130:3‑4,7)

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Dan. 9:5,9‑11• ⁵we have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from thy commandments and from thine ordinances.
⁹With the Lord our God are mercies and pardons, for we have rebelled against him;
¹⁰and we have not hearkened unto the voice of Jehovah our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us through his servants the prophets.
¹¹And all Israel have transgressed thy law, even turning aside so as not to listen unto thy voice. And the curse hath been poured out upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God: for we have sinned against him. (Dan. 9:5,9‑11)

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Dan. 9:18‑19• ¹⁸Incline thine ear, O my God, and hear; open thine eyes and behold our desolations, and the city that is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee because of our righteousnesses, but because of thy manifold mercies.
¹⁹Lord, hear! Lord, forgive! Lord, hearken and do! defer not, for thine own sake, O my God! for thy city and thy people are called by thy name. (Dan. 9:18‑19)

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Heb. 4:16• ¹⁶Let us approach therefore with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and find grace for seasonable help. (Heb. 4:16)

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Heb. 8:12• ¹²Because I will be merciful to their unrighteousnesses, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember any more. (Heb. 8:12)

a sinner.

Luke 15:18‑21• ¹⁸I will rise up and go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee;
¹⁹I am no longer worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
²⁰And he rose up and went to his own father. But while he was yet a long way off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell upon his neck, and covered him with kisses.
²¹And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee; I am no longer worthy to be called thy son. (Luke 15:18‑21)

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Luke 23:40‑43• ⁴⁰But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost *thou* too not fear God, thou that art under the same judgment?
⁴¹and *we* indeed justly, for we receive the just recompense of what we have done; but this man has done nothing amiss.
⁴²And he said to Jesus, Remember me, Lord, when thou comest in thy kingdom.
⁴³And Jesus said to him, Verily I say to thee, To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise. (Luke 23:40‑43)

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2 Chron. 33:12‑13,19,23• ¹²And when he was in affliction, he besought Jehovah his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
¹³and prayed to him. And he was intreated of him and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Jehovah, he was God.
¹⁹And his prayer, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin and his unfaithfulness, and the places in which he built high places, and set up Asherahs and graven images, before he was humbled, behold, they are written among the words of Hozai.
²³And he did not humble himself before Jehovah, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; for he, Amon, multiplied trespass. (2 Chron. 33:12‑13,19,23)

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Psa. 106:6• ⁶We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly. (Psa. 106:6)

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Isa. 1:18• ¹⁸Come now, let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. (Isa. 1:18)

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Isa. 64:5‑6• ⁵Thou meetest him that rejoiceth to do righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: (behold, thou wast wroth, and we have sinned:) in those is perpetuity, and we shall be saved.
⁶And we are all become as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have carried us away; (Isa. 64:5‑6)

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Matt. 9:13• ¹³But go and learn what that is--I will have mercy and not sacrifice; for I have not come to call righteous men but sinners. (Matt. 9:13)

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Rom. 5:8,20‑21• ⁸but God commends *his* love to us, in that, we being still sinners, Christ has died for us.
²⁰But law came in, in order that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded grace has overabounded,
²¹in order that, even as sin has reigned in the power of death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Rom. 5:8,20‑21)

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1 Tim. 1:15• ¹⁵Faithful is the word, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom *I* am the first. (1 Tim. 1:15)

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1 John 1:8‑10• ⁸If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
⁹If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
¹⁰If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. (1 John 1:8‑10)

• His position: “afar off,” indicating he knew he had no right to draw hear. His attitude: not lifting “his eyes unto heaven,”—heaven was no place for such a man as he. His action: “smote upon his breast,” thus confessing that he was the man who deserved to be smitten. His words: “me, the sinner,” for it is the rather than a here. (“Luke 18” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And the tax-gatherer, standing afar off, would not lift up even his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, O God, have compassion on me, the sinner.

W. Kelly Translation

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And the tax-gatherer, standinga afar off, would not lift up even his eyes to heaven, but was striking upon his breast, saying, God, be merciful to me the sinner.

WK Translation Notes

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With the tax-gatherer it is the ordinary expression for standing (hestōs) in contradistinction to sitting. See footnote of ver. 11.