Luke 18:1-8
Prayer and the Parable of the Persistent Widow
18:1 Then Jesus told them a parable to show them they should always pray and not lose heart.
18:2 He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected people.
18:3 There was also a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’
18:4 For a while he refused, but later on he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people,
18:5 yet because this widow keeps on bothering me, I will give her justice, or in the end she will wear me out by her unending pleas.’”
18:6 And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unrighteous judge says!
18:7 Won’t God give justice to his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay long to help them?
18:8 I tell you, he will give them justice speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”