Luke 18:1-14

          1Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray at all times and not lose heart:
          2“In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected men.
          3And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’

⁴For a while he refused, but later he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect men,

⁵yet because this widow keeps pestering me, I will give her justice. Then she will stop wearing me out with her perpetual requests.’”

          6And the Lord said, “Listen to the words of the unjust judge.
          7Will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He continue to defer their help?
          8I tell you, He will promptly carry out justice on their behalf. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on earth?”

          9To some who trusted in their own righteousness and viewed others with contempt, He also told this parable:
          10“Two men went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
          11The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like the other men —swindlers, evildoers, adulterers — or even like this tax collector.
          12I fast twice a week and pay tithes of all that I acquire.’

¹³But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’

¹⁴I tell you, this man, rather than the Pharisee, went home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

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