Luke 18:6-14

⁶Then the Master added, “Listen to what this iniquitous judge says!

⁷And God — won't he see that his own people, who cry to him night and day, have justice done them — though he holds his hand?

⁸He will, I tell you, give them justice soon enough! Yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”

⁹Another time, speaking to people who were satisfied that they were religious, and who regarded everyone else with scorn, Jesus told this parable —

¹⁰“Two men went up into the Temple Courts to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a tax-gatherer.

¹¹The Pharisee stood forward and began praying to himself in this way — ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men — thieves, rogues, adulterers — or even like this tax-gatherer.

¹²I fast twice a week, and give a tenth of everything I get to God.’

¹³Meanwhile the tax-gatherer stood at a distance, not venturing even to raise his eyes to heaven, but he kept striking his breast and saying ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’

¹⁴This man, I tell you, went home pardoned, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, while everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.”