Luke 18:5 - The Scriptures 2009

⁵ yet because this widow troubles me I shall do right to her, lest by her continual coming she wears me out.’ ”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Yet because this widow continues to bother me, I will defend and protect and avenge her, lest she give me intolerable annoyance and wear me out by her continual coming or at the last she come and rail on me or assault me or strangle me.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest she wear me out by her continual coming.

Common English Bible

⁵ but I will give this widow justice because she keeps bothering me. Otherwise, there will be no end to her coming here and embarrassing me.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ yet because this widow is pestering me, I will vindicate her, lest by returning, she may, in the end, wear me out.' "

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Yet because this widow is troublesome to me, I will avenge her, lest continually coming she weary me.

Luke 18:5 Cross References

Nehemiah 6:4

However, they sent me the same word four times, and I answered them the same word.

Matthew 15:23

But He did not answer her a word. And His taught ones came and asked Him, saying, “Send her away, because she cries after us.”

Luke 11:8

“I say to you, if he does not get up and give to him because he is his friend, he shall get up and give him as many as he needs because of his persistence.

Luke 18:3

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

Luke 18:39

And those going before were rebuking him that he should be silent, but he was crying out much more, “Son of Dawiḏ, have compassion on me!”

1 Corinthians 9:27

But I treat my body severely and make it my slave, lest having proclaimed to others, I myself might be rejected.

Judges 16:16

And it came to be, when she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, so that his being was wearied to death,