Luke 18:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Nehemiah 6:4

They sent to me four times in this way, and I answered them in the same manner.

Matthew 15:23

But he did not answer her at all. And his disciples came and urged him, saying, “Send her away, for she keeps shouting after us.”

Luke 11:8

I tell you, even though he will not get up and give him anything out of friendship, at least because of his persistence he will get up and give him whatever he needs.

Luke 18:3

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

Luke 18:39

Those who were in front sternly ordered him to be quiet, but he shouted even more loudly, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

1 Corinthians 9:27

but I punish my body and enslave it, so that after proclaiming to others I myself should not be disqualified.

Judges 16:16

Finally, after she had nagged him with her words day after day and pestered him, he was tired to death.