 | Huguenots - 1885 - 258 pages
...publican who -went up into the Temple confessed his sins not in the ear of the Priest, but smiting upon his breast and saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. — Luke xviii. 1 3. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse... | |
 | William Gay Ballantine - 1923 - 468 pages
...prayed thus with himself, ' God, I thank thee that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, cheats, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all I get.' But the tax collector stood far off and would not even lift his eyes to heaven,... | |
 | Stanley B. Marrow - 1986 - 292 pages
...prayer of the Pharisee in Luke: God, I thank thee that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week, I give tithes of all that 1 get (Lk 18:1112). This view of the law is not very far removed from the one that... | |
 | James R. Beck - 1999 - 284 pages
...obviously represented in this parable by the Pharisee. Jesus said the Pharisee prayed about himself saying, "God, I thank you that I am not like other people:...fast twice a week; I give a tenth of all my income" (Lk 18:11-12). The Pharisee, who commanded respect from the nation and who enjoyed status, access to... | |
 | Wayne Edward Oates - 1987 - 144 pages
...and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank thee that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week, I give tithes of all that I get' " (Luke 18:11-12). The book of Proverbs says, "It is better to be an ordinary... | |
 | George Angus Fulton Knight, Friedemann W. Golka - 1988 - 152 pages
...outsider. The Pharisee prays: "God, I thank thee that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week, I give tithes of all that I get" (Luke 18:11-12). The tax collector, like the king of Nineveh who also hopes... | |
 | Robert M. Hamma - 2013 - 432 pages
...'I give you thanks, O God, that I am not like the rest of men— grasping, crooked, adulterous — or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week. I pay tithes on all I possess/ The other man, however, kept his distance, not even daring to raise his... | |
 | Peter Mazar, J. Robert Baker, Robert Baker, Evelyn Kaehler - 1991 - 248 pages
...with contempt: "Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, was praying thus,...week; I give a tenth of all my income.' But the tax col lector, standing far off, would not even look up to heaven, but was beating his breast and saying,... | |
 | Bernard Brandon Scott - 1989 - 484 pages
...himself prayed thus, *O God, I give thanks to you that I am not like the rest of men, robbers, swindlers, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week, I give tithes of everything I get.' And the tax collector standing a way off did not wish to raise his eyes... | |
 | James D. G. Dunn - 1992 - 156 pages
...and prayed thus with himself, "God, I thank thee that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week, I give tithes of all that I get." (Luke 18:11-12) In pointed contrast, the tax collector stands "far off"... | |
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