Luke 18:5

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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.

Cross References

Luke 11:8

I tell you, although he will not get up and supply him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his shameless persistence and insistence he will get up and give him as much as he needs.

Luke 18:39

But those who were in front reproved him, telling him to keep quiet; yet he screamed and shrieked so much the more, Son of David, take pity and have mercy on me!

Judges 16:16

And when she pressed him day after day with her words and urged him, he was vexed to death.

Matthew 15:23

But He did not answer her a word. And His disciples came and implored Him, saying, Send her away, for she is crying out after us.

Luke 18:3

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.

1 Corinthians 9:27

But [like a boxer] I buffet my body [handle it roughly, discipline it by hardships] and subdue it, for fear that after proclaiming to others the Gospel and things pertaining to it, I myself should become unfit [not stand the test, be unapproved and rejected as a counterfeit].

Nehemiah 6:4

They sent to me four times this way, and I answered them as before.