Luke 18:9-14 - The Parable Of The Pharisee And The Tax Collector

9 To some who were confident of their own uprightness, and thought nothing of others, he used this illustration: 10 "Two men went up to the Temple to pray; one was a Pharisee and the other a tax-collector. 11 The Pharisee stood up and uttered this prayer to himself: 'O God, I thank you that I am not like other men, greedy, dishonest, or adulterous, like that tax-collector. 12 I fast two days in the week; I pay tithes on everything I get.'

13 But the tax-collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven, but struck his breast, and said, 'O God, have mercy on a sinner like me!' 14 I tell you, it was he who went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the man who humbles himself will be exalted."