Luke 18:3
And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.
In Context
2“In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected men.
4For a while he refused, but later he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect men,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:19‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Job 22:9You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
Isaiah 1:17Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
Jeremiah 5:28They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.
Romans 13:3For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to bad. Do you want to be unafraid of the one in authority? Then do what is right, and you will have his approval.
Matthew Henry on Luke 18:2-9
The Unjust Judge. 1 And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; 2 Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: 3 And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. 4 And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; 5 Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me. 6 And the… Read the whole commentary →