²⁰ And Saul said, Truly, I have done the orders of the Lord and have gone the way the Lord sent me; I have taken Agag, the king of Amalek, and have given the Amalekites up to destruction.

¹³ And Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, May the blessing of the Lord be with you: I have done what was ordered by the Lord.

³ Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God.

¹¹ The Pharisee, taking up his position, said to himself these words: God, I give you praise because I am not like other men, who take more than their right, who are evil-doers, who are untrue to their wives, or even like this tax-farmer.

²⁹ But he, desiring to put himself in the right, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbour?

²⁰ The young man says to him, All these things have I done: what more is there?

⁸ Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

² Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say,

⁵ For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;

⁹ I am clean, without sin; I am washed, and there is no evil in me:

⁸ He took Agag, king of the Amalekites, prisoner, and put all the people to the sword without mercy.

³ Go now and put Amalek to the sword, putting to the curse all they have, without mercy: put to death every man and woman, every child and baby at the breast, every ox and sheep, camel and ass.