Luke 18:2
saying, “There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God and didn’t respect man.
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Luke 18:2
saying, “There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God and didn’t respect man.
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Luke 18:1
He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray and not give up,
Luke 18:2
saying, “There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God and didn’t respect man.
Luke 18:3
A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, ‘Defend me from my adversary!’
Luke 18:4
He wouldn’t for a while; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man,
Luke 18:5
yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.’ ”
Luke 18:6
The Lord said, “Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.
Luke 18:7
Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
Luke 18:8
I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”
Luke 11:7
and he from within will answer and say, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can’t get up and give it to you’?
Luke 11:8
I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.
Luke 11:9
“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.
Luke 11:10
For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
Ephesians 6:18
with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints.
Matthew 20:31
The multitude rebuked them, telling them that they should be quiet, but they cried out even more, “Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!”
Luke 11:5
He said to them, “Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight and tell him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,
2 Corinthians 12:8
Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.
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Genesis 32:25
When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, the man touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained as he wrestled.
Genesis 32:26
The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.”
Genesis 32:27
He said to him, “What is your name?” He said, “Jacob”.
Genesis 32:28
He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
Hosea 12:4
Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us—
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Deuteronomy 1:16
I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.
Deuteronomy 16:18
You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
1 Samuel 2:25
If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against Yahweh, who will intercede for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh intended to kill them.
2 Chronicles 19:5
He set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,
Exodus 18:13
On the next day, Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.
Deuteronomy 25:1
If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment and the judges judge them, then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.
1 Samuel 7:16
He went from year to year in a circuit to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.
Matthew 5:25
Agree with your adversary quickly while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.
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Matthew 15:22
Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders and cried, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is severely possessed by a demon!”
Matthew 15:23
But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away; for she cries after us.”
Matthew 15:24
But he answered, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
Matthew 15:25
But she came and worshiped him, saying, “Lord, help me.”
Matthew 15:26
But he answered, “It is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”
Matthew 15:27
But she said, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”
Matthew 15:28
Then Jesus answered her, “Woman, great is your faith! Be it done to you even as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that hour.
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Genesis 42:18
Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.
Nehemiah 5:9
Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?
Nehemiah 5:15
But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people, but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.
Ecclesiastes 12:13
This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.
Ecclesiastes 12:14
For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.
Nehemiah 7:2
I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the fortress, in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man and feared God above many.
Job 31:23
For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.
Psalms 112:1
Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.
Proverbs 16:6
By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.
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Isaiah 1:23
Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
Psalms 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Jeremiah 5:28
They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.
Malachi 3:5
I will come near to you to judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
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1 Thessalonians 5:17
Pray without ceasing.
Daniel 6:10
When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.
Colossians 4:2
Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,
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Exodus 18:21
Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
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Psalms 10:5
His ways are prosperous at all times. He is arrogant, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.
Isaiah 33:8
The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn’t respect man.
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Matthew 21:37
But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
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