Luke 18:5-15

⁵nevertheless for this widow is heavy or dis-easeful to me, I shall avenge her; lest at the last she coming condemn me or she strangle me.

⁶And the Lord said, Hear ye, what the doomsman of wickedness saith;

⁷and whether God shall not do the vengeance of his chosen, crying to him day and night, and shall have patience in them?

⁸Soothly I say to you, for soon he shall do the vengeance of them. Nevertheless guessest thou, that man’s Son coming shall find faith in earth?

⁹And he said also to some men, that trusted in themselves, as they were rightful or as rightful, and despised others, this parable, saying,

¹⁰Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.

¹¹And the Pharisee stood, and prayed by himself these things, and said, God, I do thankings to thee, for I am not as other men, raveners, unjust, adulterers, as also this publican;

¹²I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all things that I have in possession.

¹³And the publican stood afar, and would not raise up his eyes to heaven, but smote his breast, and said, God be merciful to me, sinner.

¹⁴Truly I say to you, this went down into his house, and was justified from the other. For each that enhanceth himself, shall be made low, and he that meeketh himself, shall be enhanced.

¹⁵And they brought to him young children, that he should touch them; and when the disciples saw this thing, they blamed them.