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Luke 18:9-14
NIV
9 To some who were confident
of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus
told this parable:
10 "Two men went up to the
temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
11 The Pharisee stood up and
prayed about himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other
men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.
12 I fast twice a week and
give a tenth of all I get.'
13 "But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not
even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have
mercy on me, a sinner.'
14 "I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home
justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be
humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."
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