Luke 18:3

The Scriptures 1998

“And a widow was in that city, and she came to him, saying, ‘Do right to me on my adversary.’

Cross References

Job 22:9

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless are crushed.

Job 29:13

The blessing of the perishing one would come upon me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.

Isaiah 1:17

“Learn to do good! Seek right-ruling, reprove the oppressor, defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Jeremiah 5:28

‘They have become fat, they are sleek. They also overlook the deeds of the wrong. They did not rightly rule the cause of the fatherless, so that they prosper. And the right of the needy they did not rightly rule.

Matthew 5:25

“Be well-minded with your opponent, promptly, while you are on the way with him, lest your opponent deliver you to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.

Luke 18:2

saying, “In a certain city there was a certain judge, not fearing Elohim nor regarding man.

Luke 18:4

“And he would not for a while, but afterward he said within himself, ‘Even if I do not fear Elohim nor regard man,

Luke 18:5

yet because this widow troubles me I shall do right to her, lest by her continual coming she wears me out.’ ”

Deuteronomy 27:19

‘Cursed is he who twists the right-ruling of the stranger, the fatherless, and widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amĕ