For everyone who raises himself up will be humbled, but anyone who humbles himself will be raised up.' Luke 18:9-14

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'For everyone who raises himself up will be humbled, but anyone who humbles himself will be raised up.' 

Luke 18:9-14

 

⁹ He spoke the following parable to some people who prided themselves on being upright and despised everyone else,

¹⁰ 'Two men went up to the Temple to pray, one a Pharisee, the other a tax collector.

¹¹ The Pharisee stood there and said this prayer to himself, "I thank you, God, that I am not grasping, unjust, adulterous like everyone else, and particularly that I am not like this tax collector here.

¹² I fast twice a week; I pay tithes on all I get."

¹³ The tax collector stood some distance away, not daring even to raise his eyes to heaven; but he beat his breast and said, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner."

¹⁴ This man, I tell you, went home again justified; the other did not. For everyone who raises himself up will be humbled, but anyone who humbles himself will be raised up.'