Luke 18:5-16

⁵at any rate because this widow annoys me I will avenge her, that she may not by perpetually coming completely harass me.

⁶And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge says.

⁷And shall not God at all avenge his elect, who cry to him day and night, and he bears long as to them?

⁸I say unto you that he will avenge them speedily. But when the Son of man comes, shall he indeed find faith on the earth?

⁹And he spoke also to some, who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and made nothing of all the rest of men, this parable:

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

¹¹The Pharisee, standing, prayed thus to himself: God, I thank thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer.

¹²I fast twice in the week, I tithe everything I gain.

¹³And the tax-gatherer, standing afar off, would not lift up even his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, O God, have compassion on me, the sinner.

¹⁴I say unto you, This man went down to his house justified rather than that other. For every one who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.

¹⁵And they brought to him also infants that he might touch them, but the disciples when they saw it rebuked them.

¹⁶But Jesus calling them to him said, Suffer little children to come to me, and do not forbid them, for of such is the kingdom of God.