Luke 18:10–18

¹⁰“Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.↗

¹¹The Pharisee stood and prayed by himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men: extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.↗

¹²I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’↗

¹³But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his chest, saying, ‘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 he who humbles himself will be exalted.”↗

¹⁵They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.↗

¹⁶Jesus summoned them, saying,“Allow the little children to come to me, and don’t hinder them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.↗

¹⁷Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn’t receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”↗

¹⁸A certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”↗