Luke:18:1-14

nsb@Luke:18:1 @ He spoke an illustration to them emphasizing the need to pray and not become tired:

nsb@Luke:18:2 @ »There was a judge in a city that did not fear God and had no respect for man.

nsb@Luke:18:3 @ »There was a widow in that same city. She went to him asking for legal protection from her adversary.

nsb@Luke:18:4 @ »At first he refused. Then he thought about it and he said to himself, I do not fear God and have little respect for man.

nsb@Luke:18:5 @ »However this widow bothers me. For this reason I will avenge her. If she keeps coming to me she will wear me out.«

nsb@Luke:18:6 @ The Lord continued: »Pay attention to what the unrighteous judge said.«

nsb@Luke:18:7 @ »Should God avenge his chosen that cry to him day and night, and yet he is longsuffering over them?

nsb@Luke:18:8 @ »I say to you, that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, will the Son of man find faith on the earth when he comes?»

nsb@Luke:18:9 @ He then spoke this illustration to some who trusted in themselves. They were very self-righteous. They looked down on others:

nsb@Luke:18:10 @ »Two men went to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.

nsb@Luke:18:11 @ »The Pharisee stood and prayed like this: God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.

nsb@Luke:18:12 @ »I fast twice per week. I give tithes of all that I get.

nsb@Luke:18:13 @ »But the tax collector stood far away and would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven. He beat his breast, saying: God, be merciful to me a sinner.

nsb@Luke:18:14 @ »I tell you the tax collector and not the Pharisee was right with God when he went home. He who exalts himself will be humbled! He who humbles himself will be exalted!«

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