【路18:9】 耶稣向那些仗着自己是义人,藐视别人的,设一个比喻,
To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable:
【路18:10】 说,有两个人上殿里去祷告。一个是法利赛人,一个是税吏。
'Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
【路18:11】 法利赛人站着,自言自语的祷告说,神阿,我感谢你,我不像别人,勒索,不义,奸淫,也不像这个税吏。
The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: `God, I thank you that I am not like other men--robbers, evildoers, adulterers--or even like this tax collector.
【路18:12】 我一个礼拜禁食两次,凡我所得的,都捐上十分之一。
I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.'
【路18:13】 那税吏远远地站着,连举目望天也不敢,只捶着胸说,神阿,开恩可怜我这个罪人。
'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.'
【路18:14】 我告诉你们,这人回家去,比那人倒算为义了,因为凡自高的,必降为卑,自卑的,必升为高。
'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.'