Luke 18:5

New American Bible - revised edition

because this widow keeps bothering me I shall deliver a just decision for her lest she finally come and strike me.’”

Cross References

Luke 11:8

I tell you, if he does not get up to give him the loaves because of their friendship, he will get up to give him whatever he needs because of his persistence. The Answer to Prayer.

Luke 18:39

The people walking in front rebuked him, telling him to be silent, but he kept calling out all the more, “Son of David, have pity on me!”

Judges 16:16

She pressed him continually and pestered him till he was deathly weary of it.

Matthew 15:23

But he did not say a word in answer to her. His disciples came and asked him, “Send her away, for she keeps calling out after us.”

Luke 18:3

And a widow in that town used to come to him and say, ‘Render a just decision for me against my adversary.’

1 Corinthians 9:27

No, I drive my body and train it, for fear that, after having preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.

Nehemiah 6:4

Four times they sent me this same proposal, and each time I gave the same reply.