Reply #10: These folks are self-righteous. And I do believe that Jesus had [View All]

something to say about them.

Luke 18:10-14 (spoken by Jesus)
Two men went up into the temple to pray;
the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-collector.

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself,
“God, I thank you that I am not as other men are,
“extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax-collector.
“I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.”

And the tax collector, standing afar off,
would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven,
but smote upon his breast, saying,
“God be merciful to me, a sinner.”

I tell you, the tax collector went down to his house justified
rather than the Pharisee:
for every one that exalts himself shall be brought low;
and he that humbles himself shall be exalted