The Bible Lessons
James 5:16a
Therefore, openly acknowledge your sins to one another, and pray for each other, so that you may be healed.
Psalm 51:7-10
Sprinkle me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. Let me hear the sound of joy and gladness, so that the bones you crushed can rejoice. Turn away your face from my sins, and blot out all my crimes. Create in me a clean heart, God; renew in me a resolute spirit.
Luke 19:1-10
Jesus entered Jerico and was passing through, when a man named Zacchaeus appeared who was a chief tax-collector and a wealthy man. He was trying to see who Jesus was; but, being short, he couldn’t, because of the crowd. So he ran on ahead and climbed a fig tree in order to see him, for Jesus was about to pass that way. When he came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus! Hurry! Come down, because I have to stay at your house today!” He climbed down as fast as he could and welcomed Jesus joyfully. Everyone who saw it began muttering, “He has gone to be the house-guest of a sinner.” But Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, “Here, Lord, I am giving half of all I own to the poor; and if I have cheated anyone, I will pay him back four times as much.” Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, inasmuch as this man too is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek and save what was lost.”
Matthew 18:21- 22
Then Peter came up and said to him, “Rabbi, how often can my brother sin against me and I have to forgive him? As many as seven times?” “No, not seven times,” answered Jesus, “but seventy times seven!
