Luke 18:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Grant me justice against my accuser.’

Cross References

Job 22:9

You have sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you have crushed.

Job 29:13

The blessing of the wretched came upon me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

Isaiah 1:17

learn to do good; seek justice; rescue the oppressed; defend the orphan; plead for the widow.

Jeremiah 5:28

they have grown fat and sleek. They know no limits in deeds of wickedness; they do not judge with justice the cause of the orphan, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.

Matthew 5:25

Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are on the way to court with him, or your accuser may hand you over to the judge and the judge to the guard, and you will be thrown into prison.

Luke 18:2

He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people.

Luke 18:4

For a while he refused, but later he said to himself, ‘Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone,

Luke 18:5

yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming.’ ”

Deuteronomy 27:19

“ ‘Cursed be anyone who deprives an alien, an orphan, or a widow of justice.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’