Luke 18:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.

Luke 18:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Jeremiah 5:28
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
Deuteronomy 27:19
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Job 22:9
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Romans 13:3-4
For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: …

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Blessing Despair Despondency Discouragement Enquiring of God Importunity Prayer

Commentary

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 privilege…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

Lu 18:1-8. Parable of the Importunate Widow. 1-5. always--Compare Lu 18:7, “night and day.” faint--lose heart, or slacken.