And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?

And when he came to his disciples, he saw a great multitude about them, and the scribes questioning with them.

And he asked the scribes, What question ye with them?

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.

But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?

Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.

And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.

And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.

I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.

If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: