Luke 18:9
Good News Translation
Jesus also told this parable to people who were sure of their own goodness and despised everybody else.

New Revised Standard Version
He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and regarded others with contempt:

Contemporary English Version
Jesus told a story to some people who thought they were better than others and who looked down on everyone else:

New American Bible
He then addressed this parable to those who were convinced of their own righteousness and despised everyone else.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And to some who trusted in themselves as just and despised others, he spoke also this parable:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And to some who trusted in themselves as just and despised others, he spoke also this parable:

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Luke 10:29 But he willing to justify himself, said to Jesus: And who is my neighbour?

Luke 15:29 And he answering, said to his father: Behold, for so many years do I serve thee and I have never transgressed thy commandment: and yet thou hast never given me a kid to make merry with my friends.

Luke 16:15 And he said to them: you are they who justify yourselves before men, but God knoweth your hearts. For that which is high to men is an abomination before God.

Proverbs 30:12 A generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness.

Isaiah 65:5 That say: Depart from me, come not near me, because thou art unclean: these shall be smoke in my anger, a fire burning all the day.

Isaiah 66:5 Hear the word of the Lord, you that tremble at his word: Your brethren that hate you, and cast you out for my name's sake, have said: Let the Lord be glorified, and we shall see in your joy: but they shall be confounded.

John 9:28,34 They reviled him therefore and said: Be thou his disciple; but we are the disciples of Moses. . . .

Romans 7:9 And I lived some time without the law. But when the commandment came, sin revived,

Romans 9:31,32 But Israel, by following after the law of justice, is not come unto the law of justice. . . .

Romans 10:3 For they, not knowing the justice of God and seeking to establish their own, have not submitted themselves to the justice of God.

Philippians 3:4-6 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other thinketh he may have confidence in the flesh, I more: . . .

that they were righteous.

Luke 18:11 The Pharisee standing, prayed thus with himself: O God, I give thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, as also is this publican.

Luke 7:39 And the Pharisee, who had invited him, seeing it, spoke within himself, saying: This man, if he were if a prophet, would know surely who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him, that she is a sinner.

Luke 15:2,30 And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying: This man receiveth sinners and eateth with them. . . .

Luke 19:7 And when all saw it, they murmured, saying, that he was gone to be a guest with a man that was a sinner.

John 7:47-49 The Pharisees therefore answered them: Are you also seduced? . . .

John 8:48 The Jews therefore answered and said to him: Do not we say well that thou art a Samaritan and hast a devil?

Acts 22:21 And he said to me: Go, for unto the Gentiles afar off will I send thee.

Romans 14:10 But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? Or thou, why dost thou despise thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

Context
The Pharisee and Tax Collector
8I say to you that he will quickly revenge them. But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth? 9And to some who trusted in themselves as just and despised others, he spoke also this parable: 10Two men went up into the temple to pray: the one a Pharisee and the other a publican.…
Cross References
Isaiah 65:5
That say: Depart from me, come not near me, because thou art unclean: these shall be smoke in my anger, a fire burning all the day.

Luke 16:15
And he said to them: you are they who justify yourselves before men, but God knoweth your hearts. For that which is high to men is an abomination before God.

Romans 14:3
Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not: and he that eateth not, let him not judge him that eateth. For God hath taken him to him.

Romans 14:10
But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? Or thou, why dost thou despise thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

Luke 18:8
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