²⁰ He said to him, "Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth."

⁶ concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

²⁰ The young man said to him, "All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?"

⁵ holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof. Turn away from these, also.

⁹ I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

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

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

²⁹ But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, "Who is my neighbor?"

⁸ Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings.

³¹ They come to you as the people comes, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don't do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

³² Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don't do them.

¹⁴ Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are round about you, in the sight of all that pass by.

² Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and didn't forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.