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11 The Pharisee, having stood[a], was praying these things to[b] himself: ‘God, I thank You that I am not just-like the rest of the people— swindlers, unrighteous ones, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week. I give-a-tenth-of all that I get’. 13 But the tax collector, standing at-a-distance, was not willing even to lift-up his eyes to heaven, but was striking his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful[c] to me, the sinner!’

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 18:11 Or, stood by himself, was praying these things.
  2. Luke 18:11 Or, with-reference-to.
  3. Luke 18:13 Lit, be propitiated to me. That is, turn away your wrath from me, and thus, be merciful to me, forgive me, pardon me.

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