And Saul said to Samuel, “I have obeyed the voice of the Lord. I have gone on the mission on which the Lord sent me. I have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and I have devoted the Amalekites to destruction.
And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, “Blessed be you to the Lord. I have performed the commandment of the Lord.”
For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.
The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
The young man said to him, “All these I have kept. What do I still lack?”
Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?
“Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’
For Job has said, ‘I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;
You say, ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me.
And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive and devoted to destruction all the people with the edge of the sword.
Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”
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