Luke 18:1–18

And he spoke also a parable to them, that we ought always to pray and not to faint,

²Saying: There was a judge in a certain city, who feared not God nor regarded man.

³And there was a certain widow in that city; and she came to him, saying: Avenge me of my adversary.

⁴And he would not for a long time. But afterwards he said within himself: Although I fear not God nor regard man,

⁵Yet because this widow is troublesome to me, I will avenge her, lest continually coming she weary me.

⁶And the Lord said: Hear what the unjust judge saith.

⁷And will not God revenge his elect who cry to him day and night? And will he have patience in their regard?

⁸I say to you that he will quickly revenge them. But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?

⁹And to some who trusted in themselves as just and despised others, he spoke also this parable:

¹⁰Two men went up into the temple to pray: the one a Pharisee and the other a publican.

¹¹The Pharisee standing, prayed thus with himself: O God, I give thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, as also is this publican.

¹²I fast twice in a week: I give tithes of all that I possess.

¹³And the publican, standing afar off, would not so much as lift up his eyes towards heaven; but struck his breast, saying: O God, be merciful to me a sinner.

¹⁴I say to you, this man went down into his house justified rather than the other: because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

¹⁵And they brought unto him also infants, that he might touch them. Which when the disciples saw, they rebuked them.

¹⁶But Jesus, calling them together, said: Suffer children to come to me and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

¹⁷Amen, I say to you: Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a child shall not enter into it.

¹⁸And a certain ruler asked him, saying: Good master, what shall I do to possess everlasting life?