⁶ Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, But who can find a faithful man?

⁸ I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"

² Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don't sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most assuredly I tell you, they have received their reward.

¹ > Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

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.

¹⁴ As clouds and wind without rain, So is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.

¹¹ I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!"

³³ He said to him, "Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!"

²⁸ Peter said, "Look, we have left everything, and followed you."

² The godly man has perished out of the earth, And there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; Every man hunts his brother with a net.

¹ Run you back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.

²⁸ which my soul still seeks; but I have not found: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

² Let another man praise you, And not your own mouth; A stranger, and not your own lips.