3And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.
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Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
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.
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
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: …
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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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