Luke 18:1-14

Revised Geneva Translation

18 And He also spoke a parable to them showing that they ought always to pray and not grow weary,

² He said, “There was a judge in a certain city who neither feared God nor respected man.

³ “And there was a widow in that city who came to him saying, ‘Do me justice against my adversary.’

⁴ “And he would not do so for some time. But then, he said to himself, ‘I neither fear God nor respect man.

⁵ ‘Yet because this widow troubles me I will do her right, lest she keeps coming and makes me weary.’”

⁶ And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says.

⁷ “Now, shall not God avenge His Elect, who cry day and night to Him, even though He bears with them a long time?

⁸ “I tell you, He will avenge them quickly! But, when the Son of Man comes, shall He find faith on the Earth?”

⁹ He also spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves (that they were just) and despised others.

¹⁰ “Two men went up into the Temple to pray - the one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

¹¹ “The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘O God, I thank You that I am not as other men - extortioners, unjust, adulterers - or even as this tax collector.

¹² ‘I fast twice a week. I give tithe of all that ever I possess.’

¹³ “But the tax collector, standing at a distance, would not lift up so much as his eyes to Heaven. But he struck his breast, saying, ‘O God, be merciful to me, a sinner.’

¹⁴ “I tell you, this man departed to his house more justified than the other. For everyone who exalts himself shall be brought low. And the one who humbles himself shall be exalted.”