²⁰ And he answering said to him, `Teacher, all these did I keep from my youth.'

⁶ according to zeal persecuting the assembly! according to righteousness that is in law becoming blameless!

²⁰ The young man saith to him, `All these did I keep from my youth; what yet do I lack?'

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

⁹ And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;

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.

²⁹ And he, willing to declare himself righteous, said unto Jesus, `And who is my neighbour?'

⁸ Doth man deceive God? but ye are deceiving Me, And ye have said: `In what have we deceived Thee?' The tithe and the heave-offering!

³¹ And they come in unto thee as the coming in of a people, And they sit before thee -- My people, And have heard thy words, and they do them not, For doting loves with their mouth they are making, After their dishonest gain their heart is going.

³² And lo, thou `art' to them as a singer of doting loves, A pleasant voice, and playing well on an instrument, And they have heard thy words, and they are not doing them.

¹⁴ And I give thee for a waste, And for a reproach among nations that `are' round about thee, Before the eyes of every passer by.

² Seeing -- Me day by day they seek, And the knowledge of My ways they desire, As a nation that righteousness hath done, And the judgment of its God hath not forsaken, They ask of me judgments of righteousness, The drawing near of God they desire: