Luke 18:3 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

³ A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, 'Defend me from my adversary!'

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ and there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ 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.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ and there was a widow in that city; and she came oft unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.

Common English Bible

³ In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him, asking, ‘Give me justice in this case against my adversary.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ But there was a certain widow in that city, and she went to him, saying, 'Vindicate me from my adversary.'

Luke 18:3 Cross References

Job 22:9

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

Job 29:13

the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

Isaiah 1:17

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.*

Jeremiah 5:28

They are grew fat, they shine: yes, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy they don't judge.

Matthew 5:25

Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

Luke 18:2

saying, *There was a judge in a certain city who didn't fear God, and didn't respect man.

Luke 18:4

He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,

Luke 18:5

yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.'*

Deuteronomy 27:19

Cursed be he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow. All the people shall say, Amein.