9He also said this parable to certain ones who had persuaded themselves that they were just and who rejected the rest.10Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.11The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed these words: God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men—rapacious, unjust, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.12I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of all that I acquire.13But the tax collector, standing at a distance, would not even raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast and said: God, be merciful to me, a sinner.14I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.