Luke 18:5-15

⁵yet because this widow doth give me trouble, I will do her justice, lest, perpetually coming, she may plague me.'

⁶And the Lord said, 'Hear ye what the unrighteous judge saith:

⁷and shall not God execute the justice to His choice ones, who are crying unto Him day and night — bearing long in regard to them?

⁸I say to you, that He will execute the justice to them quickly; but the Son of Man having come, shall he find the faith upon the earth?'

⁹And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile:

¹⁰'Two men went up to the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-gatherer;

¹¹the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer;

¹²I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all things — as many as I possess.

¹³'And the tax-gatherer, having stood afar off, would not even the eyes lift up to the heaven, but was smiting on his breast, saying, God be propitious to me — the sinner!

¹⁴I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

¹⁵And they were bringing near also the babes, that he may touch them, and the disciples having seen did rebuke them,