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

⁹ And He spake also this parable to some who had trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised the rest: ¹⁰ Two men went up into the temple to pray; one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-collector. ¹¹ The Pharisee, having taken his stand, was praying these things with himself: 'God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax-collector! ¹² I fast twice on the Sabbath; I give a tenth of all that I acquire.'

¹³ "But the tax-collector, standing afar off, would not lift up even his eyes to heaven, but was smiting his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, the sinner!' ¹⁴ I say to you, this man went down justified to his house, rather than the other; because every one who exalts himself shall be humbled, but he who humbles himself shall be exalted."