11The Pharisee stood and started praying to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like all the rest—robbers, unjust, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.
12I fast twice a week; I tithe all that I get.’
13The tax collector, staying a good ways off, did not even venture to look up to heaven, but started beating on his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’
14I say to you that this one went back home justified rather than that one; because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
15Then they even started bringing their babies to Him, that He might touch them; but when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
16But Jesus summoned them and said: “Allow the little children to come to me, and do not hinder them; because the Kingdom of God is of such.
17I tell you assuredly, whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God the way a little child does will by no means enter it.”
18A certain ruler asked Him, saying, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
19So Jesus said to him: “Why do you call me good? No one is good except one—God.
20You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and your mother.’ ”
21And he said, “All these I have kept from my youth.”
22Well upon hearing these things Jesus said to him, “You still lack one thing: sell all you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
23But when he heard this he became very sad, because he was extremely rich.
24When Jesus saw that he became sad, He said: “How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter the Kingdom of God!
Luke 18
Luke 18:11-24