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fast twice a week and I give you a tenth of all my income.’ “But the tax collector, standing far off; would not even look up to heaven as he prayed, rather he beat his breast in sorrow saying, ‘God, be merciful to me; a sinner.’ “I tell you, this man went down to his home justified rather than the other, for all who exalts himself will be humbled, and for all who humbles himself will be exalted.”
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