ââLuke⏠â18:9-14⏠âAMPC âHe also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves and were confident that they were righteous [that they were upright and in right standing with God] and scorned and made nothing of all the rest of men: Two men went up into the temple [enclosure] to pray, the one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee took his stand ostentatiously and began to pray thus before and with himself: God, I thank You that I am not like the rest of menâextortioners (robbers), swindlers [unrighteous in heart and life], adulterersâor even like this tax collector here. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I gain. But the tax collector, [merely] standing at a distance, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but kept striking his breast, saying, O God, be favorable (be gracious, be merciful) to me, the especially wicked sinner that I am! I tell you, this man went down to his home justified (forgiven and made upright and in right standing with God), rather than the other man; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.â #LordHelpUsToHumbleOurselves #GraceToOvercome #MadeAWay #CozYouMoveMountains #WhenPraisesGoUpHisGloryComesDown #LordLeadUsToRepentance #OnlyYouAreHolyLord #1John3_6 AMPC #1John3_9 AMPCâ¤ď¸đđź âŹâŹ (at Durban, KwaZulu-Natal)
