7And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
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Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. …
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten. …
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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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