And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to His disciples, "Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

And their scribes and the Pharisees complained against His disciples, saying, "Why do You eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?"

Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he spoke within himself, saying, "This [Man], if He were a prophet, would know who and what sort of woman [this is] who touches Him, for she is a sinner."

And the Pharisees and scribes were grumbling, saying, "This man receives sinners and eats with them."

But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and began to plead with him.

But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with prostitutes, you slaughtered the fatted calf for him.'

Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised the others:

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank You that I am not like other men--swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

"Then He said to me, 'Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.'"

Now they were listening to him until this statement, and they lifted their voice saying, "Take away such a [man] from the earth, for it is not fitting [for] him to live!"

Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest on the law, and boast in God,

and are persuaded that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in darkness,

You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal?

You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God through the transgression of the law?

For indeed circumcision profits if you keep the law; but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

And will not the physically uncircumcised, who fulfills the law, judge you along with your written [code] and circumcision, a transgressor of the law?

but he [is] a Jew that [is one] inwardly; and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, whose praise is not of men but of God.

These are those who cause divisions, wordly, not having [the] Spirit.

For he rejoices in all things which God hates, and he is ruined by reason of impurity of soul.

The eye of the haughty, an unjust tongue, hands shedding innocent blood,

As a sour grape is hurtful to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so iniquity hurts those that practice it.

Everyone that is proud in heart is unclean before God, and he that unjustly strikes hands with hand shall not be held guiltless.

But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

Likewise, younger [people], subject yourselves to [the] elders. And all of you be subject to one another, and be clothed with humility, because "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

God shall by no means be willing to pardon him, but then the wrath of the Lord and His jealousy shall flame out against that man; and all the curses of this covenant shall attach themselves to him, which are written in this book, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.

and said, I will turn away My face from them, and will show what shall happen to them in the last days; for it is a perverse generation, sons in whom is no faith.

For a fire has been kindled out of My wrath, it shall burn to hell below; it shall devour the land, and the fruits of it; it shall set on fire the foundations of the mountains.