Luke 18:9 Cross References - WPNT

⁹ Then He told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised the rest:

³⁹ Now as the Pharisee who had invited Him observed this, he was saying to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him, including what sort of woman she is—because she is a sinner!”

²⁹ But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

² Well the Pharisees and the scribes started complaining, saying, “This man welcomes ‘sinners’ and eats with them”.

²⁹ But in answer he said to the father: ‘Just look at how many years I have been serving you without ever transgressing your commandment; yet you never gave me even a young goat that I might celebrate with my friends. ³⁰ But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with prostitutes, you killed the fatted calf for him!’

¹⁵ So He said to them: “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. That which is exalted among men is an abomination before God.

¹¹ The Pharisee stood and started praying to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like all the rest—robbers, unjust, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.

⁷ But when they saw it, they all started complaining, saying, “He has entered to lodge with a sinful man!”

⁴⁷ So the Pharisees answered: “You haven’t been fooled too, have you? ⁴⁸ None of the rulers or the Pharisees have believed into him, have they? ⁴⁹ But this crowd that doesn’t know the law is accursed!”

⁴⁸ So the Jews answered and said to Him, “We say that you are a Samaritan and have a demon —are we wrong?”

²⁸ They reviled him and said: “You are that fellow’s disciple, but we are Moses’ disciples.

³⁴ They answered and said to him, “You were totally born in sins, and you are teaching us ?” And they expelled him.

²¹ And He said to me, ‘Get going, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles’.”

⁹ Once upon a time, without law, I was actually ‘alive’; but when the commandment came, the sin came to life and I died.

³¹ while Israel, pursuing a standard of righteousness, did not attain to that standard. ³² Why not? Because it was not from faith, but as from works of the law. They stumbled over the ‘stumbling stone’;

³ For they, failing to understand God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to God’s righteousness.

¹⁰ But you, why do you judge your brother? And you too, why do you look down on your brother? Because we will all stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ.

⁴ (though I myself actually have basis for such confidence). If anyone else thinks he has basis for confidence in flesh, I even more: ⁵ circumcised the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; with respect to the Law, a Pharisee; ⁶ with respect to zeal, persecuting the Church; with respect to the righteousness that is in the law, blameless.