2Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:
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The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David. O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. …
And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;
Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood. …
And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment? …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)This parable has its key hanging at the door; the drift and design of it are prefixed . Christ spoke it with this intent, to teach us that men ought always to pray and not to faint , Luke 18:1. It supposes that all God’s people are praying people; all God’s children keep up both a constant and an occasional correspondence with him, send to him statedly , and upon every emergency . It is our privil…
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