Bible Verses About Self-Righteousness: Illustrated

`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.