Sinners & publicans. Pharisees, scribes.

Unto neither of these could I ever subscribe,

for I read of these groups in the scriptures each day

and both make me feel to exclaim when I pray:

  

“Oh praise be that I’m not as other men are,

like those sinners and publicans, God keep me far

from their damnable words and their damnable deeds,

and more so than this, Oh God keep me free

from those scribes and those pharisees, they above all

are the worst kind of people and destined to fall.

Oh Lord I pray – keep me apart from these men,

and I promise my life will go on as it’s been -

fasting two times a week, paying tithes of my gain,

doing all that I do, but I need not explain

for Thou knowest all this. Yes, the time has come when

I must wrap this prayer up and close with amen.”

  

No, I’ll never be like anyone from those tribes,

not like sinners and publicans, pharisees, scribes.

For I’m nothing like them. No, my time is well spent!

Me, a just soul who has… no need to repent.

 

Reference:

Luke 18: 10-14

Luke 15:7