Luke 18:3

New International Version

And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’

Cross References

Job 22:9

And you sent widows away empty-handed and broke the strength of the fatherless.

Job 29:13

The one who was dying blessed me; I made the widow’s heart sing.

Isaiah 1:17

Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.

Jeremiah 5:28

and have grown fat and sleek. Their evil deeds have no limit; they do not seek justice. They do not promote the case of the fatherless; they do not defend the just cause of the poor.

Matthew 5:25

“Settle matters quickly with your adversary who is taking you to court. Do it while you are still together on the way, or your adversary may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison.

Luke 18:2

He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought.

Luke 18:4

“For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think,

Luke 18:5

yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’ ”

Deuteronomy 27:19

“Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”