Luke 18:5-16

⁵Yet because this widow is troublesome to me, I will avenge her, lest continually coming she weary me.

⁶And the Lord said: Hear what the unjust judge saith.

⁷And will not God revenge his elect who cry to him day and night: and will he have patience in their regard?

⁸I say to you, that he will quickly revenge them. But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?

⁹And to some who trusted in themselves as just, and despised others, he spoke also this parable:

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

¹¹The Pharisee standing, prayed thus with himself: O God, I give thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, as also is this publican.

¹²I fast twice in a week: I give tithes of all that I possess.

¹³And the publican, standing afar off, would not so much as lift up his eyes towards heaven; but struck his breast, saying: O god, be merciful to me a sinner.

¹⁴I say to you, this man went down into his house justified rather that the other: because every one that exalteth himself, shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself, shall be exalted.

¹⁵And they brought unto him also infants, that he might touch them. Which when the disciples saw, they rebuked them.

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