Luke 18:11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: “God, I thank you that I am not like other people – robbers, evildoers, adulterers – or even like this tax collector.
There is only one way to say that you are sorry and that is to tell the truth and accept blame on yourself. If you try to shift the blame onto someone else then you are not saying sorry, you are blaming someone else!
God does not want us to compare ourselves to others or justify ourselves by other people’s standards; God wants us to compare what we do with His rules and see that we have done it wrong – according to His rules and His rules alone.
Look at your own actions, not others actions…