Luke 18:1-5 ▼

1 Now Jesus was telling the disciples a parable to make the point that at all times they ought to pray and not give up and lose heart,

2 saying, “In a certain city there was a judge who did not fear God and had no respect for man.

3 There was a [desperate] widow in that city and she kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice and legal protection from my adversary.’

4 For a time he would not; but later he said to himself, ‘Even though I do not fear God nor respect man,

5 yet because this widow continues to bother me, I will give her justice and legal protection; otherwise by continually coming she [will be an intolerable annoyance and she] will wear me out.’”