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Luke 18:9

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He also told this story about those who are so sure that they are living right, and who put everybody else down.

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There are some who see themselves as pure but they're still filthy—they have not been washed.

They tell others, “Keep your distance! Don't come close to me as I'm too holy to be touched by you!” These people are like smoke in my nostrils, a stink burning all day long!

Listen to what the Lord has to say, those of you who tremble when he speaks. This is what some of your people who hate you and throw you out have said: “Let the Lord be glorified, so we can see how happy you are!” but it's them who are going to be humiliated.

On the seventh day the priest will inspect the person again and if the scabby infection has not spread and there is no pale hair in it, and it doesn't seem to be more than superficial,

But the man wanted to vindicate himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

As a result the Pharisees and the religious teachers complained, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”

But Jesus told them, “You appear pious to people, but God knows what you're thinking. What people value highly is detested by God.

The Pharisee stood up and prayed to himself, ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—cheats, criminals, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.

When the people saw this they all complained, “He's gone to stay with such a sinner!”

When the Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this he said to himself, “If this man was really a prophet he would know who this woman was who's touching him, and what kind of person she was—that she's a sinner!”

“Aren't we right to call you a Samaritan who is demon-possessed?” said the Jews.

They shouted abuse at him, and said, “You're that man's disciple.

“You were born totally sinful, and yet you're trying to lecture us,” they replied. And they threw him out of the synagogue.

The Lord told me, ‘Leave now, for I am sending you far away to the foreigners.’”

They don't understand how God makes us right with him, and they try to make themselves right. They refuse to accept God's way of making people right.

So why do you criticize your fellow-believer? Why do you despise your fellow-believer? For all of us will stand before God's throne of judgment.

Those who eat anything must not look down on those who won't, and those who won't eat must not criticize those who do—for God has accepted them both.

I used to live without realizing what the law really meant, but when I understood the implications of that commandment, then sin came back to life, and I died.




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