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Let's<00:14:12.840><c> take</c><00:14:13.019><c> a</c><00:14:13.120><c> look</c><00:14:13.259><c> at</c><00:14:13.879><c> Luke.</c>

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Yeah,<00:14:37.799><c> thank</c><00:14:38.080><c> you,</c><00:14:38.340><c> Brother</c><00:14:38.480><c> Jason.</c>

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Verse<00:14:51.259><c> 9.</c>

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The<00:15:05.580><c> Pharisee</c><00:15:06.259><c> stood</c><00:15:06.500><c> and</c><00:15:06.700><c> prayed</c><00:15:07.000><c> thus</c><00:15:07.279><c> with</c><00:15:07.480><c> himself.</c>

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God,<00:15:09.100><c> I</c><00:15:09.440><c> thank</c><00:15:09.679><c> thee</c><00:15:09.840><c> that</c><00:15:10.000><c> I</c><00:15:10.220><c> am</c><00:15:10.340><c> not</c><00:15:10.559><c> as</c><00:15:10.820><c> other</c><00:15:11.100><c> men</c><00:15:11.379><c> are.</c>

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Extortion<00:15:12.419><c> is</c><00:15:12.679><c> unjust,</c><00:15:13.399><c> adulterers</c><00:15:13.860><c> are</c><00:15:13.980><c> even</c><00:15:14.259><c> as</c><00:15:14.500><c> this</c><00:15:14.759><c> publican.</c>

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I<00:15:16.340><c> fast</c><00:15:16.779><c> twice</c><00:15:17.279><c> in</c><00:15:17.519><c> the</c><00:15:17.700><c> week.</c>

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Oh,<00:15:18.860><c> two</c><00:15:19.139><c> times.</c>

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I<00:15:20.679><c> give</c><00:15:20.940><c> tithes</c><00:15:21.500><c> of</c><00:15:21.679><c> all</c><00:15:21.960><c> that</c><00:15:22.139><c> I</c><00:15:22.360><c> possess.</c>

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would<00:15:27.220><c> not</c><00:15:27.519><c> lift</c><00:15:27.779><c> up</c><00:15:28.039><c> so</c><00:15:28.360><c> much</c><00:15:28.559><c> as</c><00:15:28.799><c> his</c><00:15:29.100><c> eyes</c><00:15:29.559><c> unto</c><00:15:29.860><c> heaven.</c>

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God,<00:15:35.340><c> be</c><00:15:35.519><c> merciful</c><00:15:36.000><c> to</c><00:15:36.500><c> me,</c><00:15:37.500><c> a</c><00:15:37.700><c> sinner.</c>