Two men went up to the Temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, the other a tax-collector. 11The Pharisee stood up straight and prayed these things about himself: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of mankind—rapacious, unjust, adulterous—or even like this tax-collector; 12I fast twice a week and tithe from everything whatsoever that I earn.’ 13But the tax-collector, standing a good distance off, would not lift his eyes to heaven, but beat upon his breast, saying, ‘God, grant mercy to me, a sinner.’ 14I tell you, the latter rather than the former went down to his house vindicated;
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