Luke 18:3

World Messianic Bible British Edition

A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, ‘Defend me from my adversary!’

Cross References

Job 22:9

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

Job 29:13

the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

Isaiah 1:17

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

Jeremiah 5:28

They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

Matthew 5:25

Agree with your adversary quickly while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

Luke 18:2

saying, “There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God and didn’t respect man.

Luke 18:4

He wouldn’t for a while; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man,

Luke 18:5

yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.’”

Deuteronomy 27:19

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’