Luke 18:3 - Revised Standard Version

³ and there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Vindicate me against my adversary.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ and there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, Protect and defend and give me justice against my adversary.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ and there was a widow in that city; and she came oft unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.

Common English Bible

³ In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him, asking, ‘Give me justice in this case against my adversary.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ But there was a certain widow in that city, and she went to him, saying, 'Vindicate me from my adversary.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And there was a certain widow in that city, and she came to him, saying: Avenge me of my adversary.

Luke 18:3 Tagairtí Cros

Job 22:9

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

Job 29:13

The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

Isaiah 1:17

learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Jeremiah 5:28

they have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of wickedness; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.

Matthew 5:25

Make friends quickly with your accuser, while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison;

Luke 18:2

He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor regarded man;

Luke 18:4

For a while he refused; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor regard man,

Luke 18:5

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

Deuteronomy 27:19

“ ‘Cursed be he who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’