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18 Also [Jesus] told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not to [a]turn coward (faint, lose heart, and give up).

He said, In a certain city there was a judge who neither reverenced and feared God nor respected or considered man.

And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, Protect and defend and give me justice against my adversary.

And for a time he would not; but later he said to himself, Though I have neither reverence or fear for God nor respect or consideration for man,

Yet because this widow continues to bother me, I will defend and protect and avenge her, lest she give me [b]intolerable annoyance and wear me out by her continual coming or [c]at the last she come and rail on me or [d]assault me or [e]strangle me.

Then the Lord said, Listen to what the unjust judge says!

And will not [our just] God defend and protect and avenge His elect (His chosen ones), who cry to Him day and night? Will He [f]defer them and [g]delay help on their behalf?

I tell you, He will defend and protect and avenge them speedily. However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find [[h]persistence in] faith on the earth?

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 18:1 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
  2. Luke 18:5 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
  3. Luke 18:5 William Tyndale, The Tyndale Bible.
  4. Luke 18:5 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
  5. Luke 18:5 John Wycliffe, The Wycliffe Bible.
  6. Luke 18:7 William Tyndale, The Tyndale Bible.
  7. Luke 18:7 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
  8. Luke 18:8 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.

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