³⁰ And he saith, `I have sinned; now, honour me, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn back with me; and I have bowed myself to Jehovah thy God.'

⁴⁴ how are ye able -- ye -- to believe, glory from one another receiving, and the glory that `is' from God alone ye seek not?

⁴³ for they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.

¹³ And the Lord saith: Because drawn near hath this people, with its mouth, And with its lips they have honoured Me, And its heart it hath put far off from Me, And their fear of Me is -- A precept of men is taught!

⁴ Lo, a presumptuous one! Not upright is his soul within him, And the righteous by his stedfastness liveth.

⁹ And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile:

¹⁰ `Two men went up to the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-gatherer;

¹¹ the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer;

¹² I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all things -- as many as I possess.

¹³ `And the tax-gatherer, having stood afar off, would not even the eyes lift up to the heaven, but was smiting on his breast, saying, God be propitious to me -- the sinner!

¹⁴ I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

⁵ having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away,