Luke 18:9-13

Goodspeed(i) 9 To some who were confident of their own uprightness, and thought nothing of others, he used this illustration: 10 "Two men went up to the Temple to pray; one was a Pharisee and the other a tax-collector. 11 The Pharisee stood up and uttered this prayer to himself: 'O God, I thank you that I am not like other men, greedy, dishonest, or adulterous, like that tax-collector. 12 I fast two days in the week; I pay tithes on everything I get.' 13 But the tax-collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven, but struck his breast, and said, 'O God, have mercy on a sinner like me!'