justified.

Luke 7:35
But wisdom is vindicated by all her children."

Judges 1:7
Then Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done, so God has repaid me." And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.

Psalm 51:4
Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be found just when You speak and blameless when You judge.

Romans 3:4-6
Absolutely not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: "So that You may be justified in Your words, and prevail in Your judgments." . . .

Romans 10:3
Because they were ignorant of God's righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.

Revelation 15:3
and they sang the song of God's servant Moses and of the Lamb: "Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!

Revelation 16:5
And I heard the angel of the waters say: "Righteous are You, O Holy One, who is and who was, because You have brought these judgments.

being.

Luke 3:12
Even tax collectors came to be baptized. "Teacher, " they asked, "what should we do?"

Matthew 3:5, 6
People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region around the Jordan. . . .

Matthew 21:31, 32
Which of the two did the will of his father?" "The first, " they answered. Jesus said to them, "Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you. . . .