Luke 18:2

Legacy Standard Bible

saying, “In a certain city there was a certain judge who did not fear God and did not respect man.

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The righteous knows the cause of the poor, The wicked does not understand that knowledge.

The highways are desolate, the traveler has ceased; He has broken the covenant, he has rejected the cities; He has no regard for man.

Now there was a widow in that city, and she kept coming to him, saying, ‘Give me justice from my opponent.’

And for a while he was unwilling; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Even though I do not fear God nor respect man,

Now the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.’

Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them. Shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?