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Luke 18:9

New Living Translation

Then Jesus told this story to some who had great confidence in their own righteousness and scorned everyone else:

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They are pure in their own eyes, but they are filthy and unwashed.

Yet they say to each other, ‘Don’t come too close or you will defile me! I am holier than you!’ These people are a stench in my nostrils, an acrid smell that never goes away.

Hear this message from the Lord, all you who tremble at his words: “Your own people hate you and throw you out for being loyal to my name. ‘Let the Lord be honored!’ they scoff. ‘Be joyful in him!’ But they will be put to shame.

On the seventh day the priest must examine the sore again. If he finds that the scabby sore has not spread, and there is no yellow hair on it, and it appears to be only skin-deep,

The man wanted to justify his actions, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

This made the Pharisees and teachers of religious law complain that he was associating with such sinful people—even eating with them!

Then he said to them, “You like to appear righteous in public, but God knows your hearts. What this world honors is detestable in the sight of God.

The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed this prayer: ‘I thank you, God, that I am not like other people—cheaters, sinners, adulterers. I’m certainly not like that tax collector!

But the people were displeased. “He has gone to be the guest of a notorious sinner,” they grumbled.

When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know what kind of woman is touching him. She’s a sinner!”

The people retorted, “You Samaritan devil! Didn’t we say all along that you were possessed by a demon?”

Then they cursed him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses!

“You were born a total sinner!” they answered. “Are you trying to teach us?” And they threw him out of the synagogue.

“But the Lord said to me, ‘Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles!’”

For they don’t understand God’s way of making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God’s way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law.

So why do you condemn another believer? Why do you look down on another believer? Remember, we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.

Those who feel free to eat anything must not look down on those who don’t. And those who don’t eat certain foods must not condemn those who do, for God has accepted them.

At one time I lived without understanding the law. But when I learned the command not to covet, for instance, the power of sin came to life,




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