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"The Pharisee1stood and was prayingthis to himself: 'God, I thank You that I am not likeotherpeople: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, orevenlikethistaxcollector.
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'I 2fasttwice a week; I 3paytithes of all that I get.'
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"But the taxcollector, 4standingsomedistanceaway, 5was evenunwilling* to lift up his eyes to heaven, but 6was beating his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, the sinner!'
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"I tell you, thismanwent to his housejustifiedratherthan the other; 7for everyone who exaltshimself will be humbled, but he who humbleshimself will be exalted."