He said: “In a city there was a judge who did not fear God or regard man.
The righteous consider the cause of the poor, but the wicked do not understand such knowledge.
The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceases. He has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities, he has no regard for man.
And a widow was in that city. She came to him, saying, ‘Avenge me against my adversary.’
“He would not for a while. Yet afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I do not fear God or respect man,
“Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. Perhaps they will respect him when they see him.’
Furthermore, we have had human fathers, and they corrected us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?