Luke 18

The Parable of the Persistent Widow

1 And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought *ch. 21:36;Rom. 12:12;Eph. 6:18;Col. 4:2;1 Thess. 5:17;[ch. 11:5-9] always to pray and not *2 Cor. 4:1,16;2 Thess. 3:13(Gk.)lose heart. 2 He said, "In a certain city there was a judge who *[2 Cor. 8:21]neither feared God nor respected man.3 And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’4 For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, *[ch. 11:8]‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man,5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’"6 And the Lord said, "Hear what the unrighteous judge says.7 And *Rev. 6:10;[Isa. 63:4] will not God give justice to *Rom. 8:33;Col. 3:12;Titus 1:1;See Mark 13:20his elect, *Ps. 88:1who cry to him day and night? *James 5:7(Gk.)*2 Pet. 3:9Will he delay long over them?8 I tell you, he will give justice to them *Heb. 10:37speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, *ch. 17:26-30;[Matt. 24:12]will he find faith on earth?"