Luke 18:14

I say to you, this man went down to his house justified rather than that man. Because every man who lifts himself up will be made lower, and he who makes himself lower will be lifted up.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

In Context

13But the tax collector, having stood from afar, would not even lift his eyes to the sky, but beat upon his breast, saying, God, be thou merciful to me a sinful man.

15And they were also bringing the infants to him, so that he would touch them, but when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.

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Cross References

Exodus 18:11Now I know that LORD is greater than all gods, yea, in the thing wherein they dealt proudly against them.

Job 9:20Though I be righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.

Job 25:4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman?

Psalms 138:6For though LORD is high, yet he has respect to the lowly. But he knows the haughty from afar.

Proverbs 3:34Surely the Lord is opposed to the arrogant (LXX/NT), but he gives grace to the lowly.

Proverbs 16:18Pride [is] before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Matthew Henry on Luke 18:10-15

The Pharisee and the Publican. 9 And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: 10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. 12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. 13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not… Read the whole commentary →

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