Luke 18:9
He also spoke this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others:
--------------------
Luke 18:9
He also spoke this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others:
--------------------
Luke 18:10
“Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.
Luke 18:11
The Pharisee stood and prayed by himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men: extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
Luke 18:12
I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’
Luke 18:13
But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
Luke 18:14
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Romans 2:23
You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?
1 Corinthians 4:7
For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
-----
Luke 16:14
The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
Luke 16:15
He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
Job 32:1
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Matthew 23:30
and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’
John 9:28
They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
-----
Luke 10:29
But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”
Romans 10:3
For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
Proverbs 30:12
There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.
Romans 7:9
I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
Romans 3:27
Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.
1 Samuel 15:13
Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, “You are blessed by Yahweh! I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.”
1 Samuel 15:14
Samuel said, “Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?”
Job 33:9
‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.
Isaiah 58:3
‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.
Matthew 20:12
saying, ‘These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’
Luke 17:10
Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.’ ”
Luke 18:21
He said, “I have observed all these things from my youth up.”
Romans 4:2
For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.
Philippians 3:9
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,
-----
Isaiah 65:5
who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.
Luke 15:29
But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.
Luke 15:30
But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’
Luke 7:39
Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”
Luke 15:2
The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”
Luke 15:7
I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.
Luke 19:7
When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”
-----
Philippians 3:4
though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:
Philippians 3:5
circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;
Philippians 3:6
concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
-----
Proverbs 28:26
One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.
Isaiah 47:8
“Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me. I won’t sit as a widow, neither will I know the loss of children.’
Hosea 10:13
You have plowed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, for you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.
Obadiah 1:3
The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’
-----
Matthew 26:33
But Peter answered him, “Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble.”
1 Corinthians 10:12
Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.
-----
Proverbs 11:12
One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace.
Luke 10:16
Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”
-----
Ezekiel 33:13
When I tell the righteous that he will surely live, if he trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but he will die in his iniquity that he has committed.
Ezekiel 3:20
“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.
Ezekiel 18:24
“But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.
-----
Luke 18:1
He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray and not give up,
-----
Luke 23:11
Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.
Acts 4:11
He is ‘the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.’
-----
Romans 14:3
Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.
-----
Romans 14:10
But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
-----
Revelation 3:17
Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing,’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
-----
Matthew 21:28
But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’
Matthew 21:29
He answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind, and went.
Matthew 21:30
He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I’m going, sir,’ but he didn’t go.
Matthew 21:31
Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.
-----
Luke 18:8
I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”
-----
Luke 19:11
As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that God’s Kingdom would be revealed immediately.
-----
John 7:48
Have any of the rulers or any of the Pharisees believed in him?
-----
John 7:49
But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed.”
-----
Romans 9:31
but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.
Romans 9:32
Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
-----
Revelation 3:18
I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.
Public Domain