The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.”
Luke 11:8 - Y'all Version Bible I tell y’all, although he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his shameless persistence, he will get up and give him as much as he needs. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I tell you, although he will not get up and supply him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his shameless persistence and insistence he will get up and give him as much as he needs. American Standard Version (1901) I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will arise and give him as many as he needeth. Common English Bible I assure you, even if he wouldn’t get up and help because of his friendship, he will get up and give his friend whatever he needs because of his friend’s brashness. Catholic Public Domain Version Yet if he will persevere in knocking, I tell you that, even though he would not get up and give it to him because he is a friend, yet due to his continued insistence, he will get up and give him whatever he needs. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Yet if he shall continue knocking, I say to you, although he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend; yet, because of his importunity, he will rise, and give him as many as he needeth. |
The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.”
Then he will answer from inside, saying, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is already shut, and my children and I are in bed. I can’t get up and give anything to you.’
Now I beg y’all, siblings, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that y’all join with me in your* prayers to God for me,
I pleaded with the Lord three times about this, that it would leave me.
I want y’all know how greatly I struggle for y’all, for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not seen my face in the flesh;
Epaphras, who is one of y’all, a slave of Christ, greets y’all. He is always struggling for y’all in his prayers, that y’all may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted; and on the seventh day, he told her, because she pressed him severely; and she told the riddle to the children of her people.