Luke 18:10

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““Two men went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.”

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BSBPD

““Two men went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

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

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Luke 18:10 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 1 Kings 8:30Hear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. May You hear and forgive.
  2. 2 Kings 20:5“Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the LORD.
  3. 2 Kings 20:8Now Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?”
  4. Matthew 21:31Which of the two did the will of his father?” “The first,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you.
  5. Luke 1:9he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense.
  6. Luke 7:29All the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice. For they had received the baptism of John.
  7. Luke 19:46He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be a house of prayer.’ But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”
  8. Acts 3:1One afternoon Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
  9. Acts 23:6Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. It is because of my hope in the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.”
  10. Acts 26:5They have known me for a long time and can testify, if they are willing, that I lived as a Pharisee, adhering to the strictest sect of our religion.
  11. Philippians 3:5circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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