Luke 18:5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won't eventually come and attack me!'"

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Luke 11:8
I say to you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needs.

Luke 18:3
And there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, Avenge me of my adversary.

1 Corinthians 9:27
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

18:1-8 All God's people are praying people. Here earnest steadiness in prayer for spiritual mercies is taught. The widow's earnestness prevailed even with the unjust judge: she might fear lest it should set him more against her; but our earnest prayer is pleasing to our God. Even to the end there will still be ground for the same complaint of weakness of faith.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

5. continual coming—coming for ever.