Self-Interpreting Bible

Luke 18:5

Yet ^ebecause this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.

Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.

NKJV: yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.’ ”

ESV: yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’”

διά γε τὸ παρέχειν μοι κόπον τὴν χήραν ταύτην, ἐκδικήσω αὐτήν, ἵνα μὴ εἰς τέλος ἐρχομένη ὑπωπιάζῃ με.

Relight

Luke 18:7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?

Luke 11:8 I say unto 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 needeth.