mnt - Luke:18:1-14

mnt@Luke:18:1 @ He also taught them by a parable how they ought always to pray and never to lose heart.

mnt@Luke:18:2 @ "There was a certain town," he said, "a judge who had neither reverence for God, nor respect for man.

mnt@Luke:18:3 @ "In that same town there was a widow who came again and again before him, saying, "Do for me the justice of my adversary.

mnt@Luke:18:4 @ "For a while he would not, but afterwards he said to himself, Though I have neither reverence for God nor regard for man,

mnt@Luke:18:5 @ "yet because this woman annoys me I will give her justice, lest by her continual coming she wear me out.

mnt@Luke:18:6 @ "Listen" said the Lord, "to what this unjust judge says.

mnt@Luke:18:7 @ "And will not God see justice done to his elect who are crying unto him day and night, even if he seems to delay helping them?

mnt@Luke:18:8 @ "I tell you that he will quickly see justice done to his elect! Nevertheless, when the Son of man comes, will he find faith upon the earth?"

mnt@Luke:18:9 @ Moreover he spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves because they were righteous, and looked down upon the rest.

mnt@Luke:18:10 @ "Two men are going up to the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, the other a tax-gatherer.

mnt@Luke:18:11 @ "The Pharisee stood apart and thus began to pray by himself. "O God, I thank thee that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax gatherer;

mnt@Luke:18:12 @ "I fast twice a week, I pay tithes of all my possessions.

mnt@Luke:18:13 @ "But the tax-gatherer, standing far back, would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven, but kept beating his breast and saying, "O God be merciful to me, the sinner!

mnt@Luke:18:14 @ "I tell you that this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for every one who exalts himself shall be humbled; but he who humbles himself shall be exalted."