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What is the name of this bible story?

It's something like a man is boastful of the good deeds that he has done in front of all of the townspeople. But it's only a show and therefore won't go to heaven.

Name or verse is great!

Thanks!

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I think you are thinking of the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector. Luke 18.9-14

  • Sanele
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Not sure if this is what you are referring to..

    Luke 18

    9To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: 10"Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11The 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. 12I 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."

  • Luke 18:9-14

    The publican and the Pharisee

  • Adonai
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    won't go to heaven.....wtf....

    Kinda steep penalty ya think?

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