Luke 18:3

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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.

Cross References

Isaiah 1:17

Learn to do right! Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Deuteronomy 27:19

Cursed is he who perverts the justice due to the sojourner or the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. All the people shall say, Amen.

Jeremiah 5:28

They have grown fat and sleek. Yes, they surpass in deeds of wickedness; they do not judge and plead with justice the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.

Job 29:13

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

Job 22:9

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

Matthew 5:25

Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are on the way traveling with him, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison.

Luke 18:2

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

Luke 18:4

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,

Luke 18:5

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.