Luke 18:3 - The Scriptures 2009

³ “And a widow was in that city, and she came to him, saying, ‘Do right to me on 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.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And there was a certain widow in that city, and she came to him, saying: Avenge me of my adversary.

Luke 18:3 Cross References

Job 22:9

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless are crushed.

Job 29:13

The blessing of the perishing one would come upon me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.

Isaiah 1:17

“Learn to do good! Seek right-ruling, reprove the oppressor, defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Jeremiah 5:28

They have become fat, they are sleek. They also overlook the deeds of the wrong. They did not rightly rule the cause of the fatherless, so that they prosper. And the right of the needy they did not rightly rule.

Matthew 5:25

Be well-minded with your opponent, promptly, while you are on the way with him, lest your opponent deliver you to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.

Luke 18:2

saying, “In a certain city there was a certain judge, not fearing Elohim nor regarding man.

Luke 18:4

And he would not for a while, but afterward he said within himself, ‘Even if I do not fear Elohim nor regard man,”

Luke 18:5

yet because this widow troubles me I shall do right to her, lest by her continual coming she wears me out.’ ”

Deuteronomy 27:19

Cursed is he who twists the right-ruling of the stranger, the fatherless, and widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amĕn!’