Luke 18

¹And he spake also a parable vnto them, to this ende, that they ought alwayes to pray, and not to waxe faint,

²Saying, There was a iudge in a certaine citie, which feared not God, neither reuereced man.

³And there was a widowe in that citie, which came vnto him, saying, Doe mee iustice against mine aduersarie.

⁴And hee would not of a long time: but afterward he said with himselfe, Though I feare not God, nor reuerence man,

⁵Yet because this widowe troubleth mee, I will doe her right, lest at the last shee come and make me wearie.

⁶And the Lord said, Heare what the vnrighteous iudge saith.

⁷Now shall not God auenge his elect, which cry day and night vnto him, yea, though he suffer long for them?

⁸I tell you he will auenge them quickly: but when the Sonne of man commeth, shall he finde faith on the earth?

⁹He spake also this parable vnto certaine which trusted in themselues that they were iust, and despised other.

¹⁰Two men went vp into the Temple to pray: the one a Pharise, and the other a Publican.

¹¹The Pharise stoode and prayed thus with himselfe, O God, I thanke thee that I am not as other men, extortioners, vniust, adulterers, or euen as this Publican.

¹²I fast twise in the weeke: I giue tithe of all that euer I possesse.

¹³But the Publican standing a farre off, woulde not lift vp so much as his eyes to heauen, but smote his brest, saying, O God, be mercifull to me a sinner.