Luke 18:4-14

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4 For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ¹‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man,

5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming. ’”

6 And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says.

7 And ²will not God give justice to ³his elect, ⁴who cry to him day and night? ⁵ ⁶Will he delay long over them?

8 I tell you, he will give justice to them ⁷speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, ⁸will he find faith on earth? ”

The Pharisee and the Tax Collector

9 He also told this parable to some ⁹who trusted ¹⁰in themselves that they were righteous, ¹¹and treated others with contempt:

10 “Two men ¹²went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

11 The Pharisee, ¹³standing by himself, prayed^[a] ¹⁴thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

12 ¹⁵I fast twice a week; ¹⁶I give tithes of all that I get. ’

13 But the tax collector, ¹⁷standing far off, ¹⁸would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but ¹⁹beat his breast, saying, ‘God, ²⁰be merciful to me, a sinner! ’

14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For ²¹everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted. ”

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