The Gospel of Luke 18

The Parable of the Persistent Widow. The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector. Saying on Children and the Kingdom. The Rich Official. On Riches and Renunciation. The Third Prediction of the Passion. The Healing of the Blind Beggar.

Don’t be a Pharisee when praying to the Lord.

¹⁰Two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee and the other a publican. ¹¹The Pharisee stood and prayed thus within himself: God, I thank you that I am not like other men are: extortioners, unjust, adulterers – or like this publican. ¹²I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.

¹³And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. ¹⁴I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
(Luke 18:10-14)