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

And their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against His disciples, saying, Why do you eat and drink with 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 manner of woman this is who is touching Him, for she is a sinner.

And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This Man receives sinners and eats with them.

But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and begged him.

But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.

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

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus to himself, God, I thank You that I am not like other men; extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.

Then He said to me, Depart, for I will send you far from here to the Gentiles.

And they listened to him until this word, and then they raised their voices and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth, for he is not fit to live!

Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest on the Law, and make your boast in God,

and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are 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 make your boast in the Law, do you dishonor God through transgressing the Law?

For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the Law; but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

And will not the naturally uncircumcised, if he fulfills the Law, judge you who, though having the writings and circumcision, are a transgressor of the Law?

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.

These are they who set themselves apart, sensual persons, not having the Spirit.

These six things Jehovah hates; yea, seven are an abomination to his soul:

Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Like vinegar to the teeth, and like smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Jehovah; though hand join in hand, he shall not go unpunished.

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

Likewise you that are younger, be subject to your elders. Yes, all of you be subject to one another, and be clothed with humility, for God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

Jehovah will not consent to forgive him; for then the anger of Jehovah and His jealousy shall smoke against that man, and every curse that is written in this book shall lie down upon him, and Jehovah shall blot out his name from under the heavens.

And He said, I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end will be, for they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.

For a fire has been kindled in my anger, and shall burn to the lowest Sheol; it shall consume the earth with her produce, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.