Bible Verses About Parables: Pharisee and Publican

And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile:

`Two men went up to the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-gatherer;

the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer;

I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all things--as many as I possess.

`And the tax-gatherer, having stood afar off, would not even the eyes lift up to the heaven, but was smiting on his breast, saying, God be propitious to me--the sinner!

I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'