Luke 18:5 - Modern English Version

⁵ yet because this widow troubles me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she will weary me.’ ”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Yet because this widow continues to bother me, I will defend and protect and avenge her, lest she give me intolerable annoyance and wear me out by her continual coming or at the last she come and rail on me or assault me or strangle me.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest she wear me out by her continual coming.

Common English Bible

⁵ but I will give this widow justice because she keeps bothering me. Otherwise, there will be no end to her coming here and embarrassing me.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ yet because this widow is pestering me, I will vindicate her, lest by returning, she may, in the end, wear me out.' "

Luke 18:5 Tagairtí Cros

Nehemiah 6:4

Four more times they sent for me like this, but I answered them the same way.

Matthew 15:23

But He did not answer her a word. And His disciples came and begged Him, saying, “Send her away, for she cries out after us.”

Luke 11:8

I say to you, though he will not rise and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as much as he needs.

Luke 18:3

And a widow was in that city. She came to him, saying, ‘Avenge me against my adversary.’

Luke 18:39

Those who went in front rebuked him, so that he would keep quiet. But he cried out much more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

1 Corinthians 9:27

But I bring and keep my body under subjection, lest when preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

Judges 16:16

Every day she nagged him with her words and pleaded with him until he was tired to death.