Luke 18:7

and whether God shall not do [the] vengeance of his chosen, crying to him day and night, and shall have patience in them? (and so shall God not take vengeance for his chosen, those crying to him day and night, and shall also have patience with them?)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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

6And the Lord said, Hear ye, what the doomsman of wickedness saith (or Listen to what the wicked judge saith);

8Soothly I say to you, for soon he shall do [the] vengeance of them. Nevertheless guessest thou, that man’s Son coming shall find faith in earth? (Truly I say to you, or I tell you the truth, that soon he shall take vengeance for them. Nevertheless guessest thou, that when man’s Son cometh, he shall find faith on the earth?)

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Cross References

1 Samuel 26:10And David said, (As) The Lord liveth, for no but the Lord smite him, either his day come that he die, either he go down into battle, and perish;

Psalms 10:15All-break thou the arm of the sinner, and evil-willed; his sin shall be sought, and it shall not be found. (Break thou the arm, or the power, of the sinner, and those who be evil-willed; let their sins be sought out until no more be found.)

Psalms 54:1To victory, in organs, either in psalms, the learning of David, when Ziphims came, and said to Saul, Whether David is not hid at us? God, in thy name, make thou me safe; and in thy virtue, deem thou me. ( For the choirmaster, with stringed instruments, or only in song, a teaching by David, when the Ziphims came, and said to Saul, David is hid with us! God, by the power of thy name, save thou me; and in thy strength, judge thou me.)

Jeremiah 20:11Forsooth the Lord as a strong warrior is with me, therefore they that pursue me shall fall, and they shall be feeble; and they shall be shamed greatly (or and they shall be greatly shamed), for they understood not (about) everlasting shame, that shall never be done away.

Matthew 7:11Therefore if ye, when ye be evil men, know how to give good gifts to your sons, how much more your Father that is in heavens shall give good things to men that ask him?

Luke 11:13Therefore if ye, when ye be evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more your Father of heaven shall give a good Spirit to men that 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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