Luke 18:9

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There were some people who thought they were very good and looked down on everyone else. Jesus used this story to teach them:

Cross References

Luke 16:15

Jesus said to them, “You make yourselves look good in front of people. But God knows what is really in your hearts. What people think is important is worth nothing to God.

Proverbs 30:12

Some people think they are pure, but they have done nothing to remove the filth of their sin.

Isaiah 65:5

But they tell others, ‘Don’t come near me! Don’t touch me because I am holy!’ They are like smoke in my eyes, and their fire burns all the time.”

Romans 10:3

They did not know the way that God makes people right with him. And they tried to make themselves right in their own way. So they did not accept God’s way of making people right.

Romans 14:10

So why do you judge your brother or sister in Christ? Or why do you think that you are better than they are? We will all stand before God, and he will judge us all.

Luke 7:39

When the Pharisee who asked Jesus to come to his house saw this, he thought to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know that the woman who is touching him is a sinner!”

Romans 7:9

Before I knew the law, I was alive. But when I heard the law’s command, sin began to live,

Luke 19:7

Everyone saw this. They began to complain, “Look at the kind of man Jesus is staying with. Zacchaeus is a sinner!”

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood alone, away from the tax collector. When the Pharisee prayed, he said, ‘O God, I thank you that I am not as bad as other people. I am not like men who steal, cheat, or commit adultery. I thank you that I am better than this tax collector.

Acts 22:21

“But Jesus said to me, ‘Leave now. I will send you far away to the non-Jewish people.’”

John 9:34

The Jewish leaders answered, “You were born full of sin! Are you trying to teach us?” And they told the man to get out of the synagogue and to stay out.

John 9:28

At this they shouted insults at him and said, “You are his follower, not us! We are followers of Moses.

John 8:48

The Jews there answered, “We say you are a Samaritan. We say a demon is making you crazy! Are we not right when we say this?”

Luke 15:2

Then the Pharisees and the teachers of the law began to complain, “Look, this man welcomes sinners and even eats with them!”

Luke 10:29

But the man wanted to show that the way he was living was right. So he said to Jesus, “But who is my neighbor?”

Isaiah 66:5

You who obey the Lord’s commands, listen to what he says: “Your brothers hated you. They turned against you because you followed me. Your brothers said, ‘When the Lord shows his glory, then we will rejoice with you.’ But they will be punished.”

Romans 14:3

Those who know they can eat any kind of food must not feel that they are better than those who eat only vegetables. And those who eat only vegetables must not decide that those who eat all foods are wrong. God has accepted them.

Leviticus 13:32

On the seventh day, the priest must look at it again. If the disease has not spread, and there are no yellow hairs growing in it, and the disease does not seem deeper than the skin,