Luke 18:14

I say unto you, This [man] went down to his house justified rather than that [other]. For every one who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.

Darby Translation

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

13And the tax-gatherer, standing afar off, would not lift up even his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, O God, have compassion on me, the sinner.

15And they brought to him also infants that he might touch them, but the disciples when they saw [it] rebuked them.

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Cross References

Exodus 18:11Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all gods; for in the thing in which they acted haughtily [he was] above them.

Job 9:20If I justified myself, mine own mouth would condemn me; were I perfect, he would prove me perverse.

Job 25:4And how should man be just with God? Or how should he be clean that is born of a woman?

Psalms 138:6For Jehovah is high; but he looketh upon the lowly, and the proud he knoweth afar off.

Proverbs 3:34He indeed scorneth the scorners; but he giveth grace unto the lowly.

Proverbs 16:18Pride [goeth] 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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