Luke 18:7-23

⁷Now shall not God auenge his elect, which cry day and night vnto him, yea, though he suffer long for them?

⁸I tell you he will auenge them quickly: but when the Sonne of man commeth, shall he finde faith on the earth?

⁹He spake also this parable vnto certaine which trusted in themselues that they were iust, and despised other.

¹⁰Two men went vp into the Temple to pray: the one a Pharise, and the other a Publican.

¹¹The Pharise stoode and prayed thus with himselfe, O God, I thanke thee that I am not as other men, extortioners, vniust, adulterers, or euen as this Publican.

¹²I fast twise in the weeke: I giue tithe of all that euer I possesse.

¹³But the Publican standing a farre off, woulde not lift vp so much as his eyes to heauen, but smote his brest, saying, O God, be mercifull to me a sinner.

¹⁴I tell you, this man departed to his house iustified, rather then the other: for euery man that exalteth himselfe, shall be brought lowe, and he that humbleth himselfe, shalbe exalted.

¹⁵They brought vnto him also babes that he should touche them. And when his disciples sawe it, they rebuked them.

¹⁶But Iesus called them vnto him, and said, Suffer the babes to come vnto mee, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdome of God.

¹⁷Verely I say vnto you, whosoeuer receiueth not the kingdome of God as a babe, he shall not enter therein.

¹⁸Then a certaine ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what ought I to doe, to inherite eternall life?

¹⁹And Iesus said vnto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, saue one, euen God.

²⁰Thou knowest the comandements, Thou shalt not commit adulterie: Thou shalt not kill: Thou shalt not steale: Thou shalt not beare false witnes: Honour thy father and thy mother.

²¹And hee saide, All these haue I kept from my youth.

²²Nowe when Iesus heard that, he saide vnto him, Yet lackest thou one thing. Sell all that euer thou hast, and distribute vnto the poore, and thou shalt haue treasure in heauen, and come follow mee.

²³But when he heard those things, he was very heauie: for he was marueilous riche.