What Comes First, Obedience or Faith?
9 To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable:
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"Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.11
The Pharisee stood up and prayed about[a] himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.12
I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.'13 "But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.'
14 "I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."
