To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else he told this parable:
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7Will God not then give justice to his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep them waiting? 8I tell you, he will give them justice, and quickly. Yet when the Son of Man comes, will he find such faith on the earth?” 9To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else he told this parable: 10“Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee, the other a tax collector. 11The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity — greedy, unjust, adulterous — or even like this tax collector.
