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Luke 18:7

Now will not God also bring justice to his chosen ones who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?

Unlocked Literal Bible

In The King James Version

And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?

In Context

6Then the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says.

8I say to you that he will bring justice to them speedily. Even so, when the Son of Man comes, will he indeed find faith on the earth?”

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Cross References

1 Samuel 26:10David said, “As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will kill him, or his day will come to die, or he will go into battle and perish.

Psalms 10:15Break the arm of the wicked and evil man. 1 Make him account for his evil deeds, 1 which he thought you would not discover. 1

Psalms 54:1Save me, God, by your name, 1 and judge me in your might. 1

Jeremiah 20:11But Yahweh is with me like a powerful warrior, so the ones pursuing me will stagger. 1 They will not defeat me. They will be greatly ashamed, because they will not succeed. 1 They will have unending shame, it will never be forgotten. 1

Matthew 7:11Therefore, if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him?

Luke 11:13Therefore, if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

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 →

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