Luke 18:1-14
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Luke 18:1-14 (AMP)
to pray and not to turn coward (faint, lose heart, and give up).
2 He said, In a certain city there was a judge who neither reverenced
and feared God nor respected or considered man.
3 And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and
saying, Protect and defend and give me justice against my adversary.
4 And for a time he would not; but later he said to himself, Though I have
neither reverence or fear for God nor respect or consideration for man,
5 Yet because this widow continues to bother me, I will defend and
protect and avenge her, lest she give me intolerable annoyance and
wear me out by her continual coming or at the last she come and rail on
me or assault me or strangle me.
6 Then the Lord said, Listen to what the unjust judge says!
7 And will not [our just] God defend and protect and avenge His elect
(His chosen ones), who cry to Him day and night? Will He defer them
and delay help on their behalf?
8 I tell you, He will defend and protect and avenge them speedily.
However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find [persistence in] faith
on the earth?
9 He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves
and were confident that they were righteous [that they were upright and
in right standing with God] and scorned and made nothing of all the rest
of men:
10 Two men went up into the temple [enclosure] to pray, the one a
Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
11 The Pharisee took his stand ostentatiously and began to pray thus
before and with himself: God, I thank You that I am not like the rest of
men—extortioners (robbers), swindlers [unrighteous in heart and life],
adulterers—or even like this tax collector here.
12 I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I gain.
13 But the tax collector, [merely] standing at a distance, would not even
lift up his eyes to heaven, but kept striking his breast, saying, O God, be
favorable (be gracious, be merciful) to me, the especially wicked sinner
that I am!
14 I tell you, this man went down to his home justified (forgiven and
made upright and in right standing with God), rather than the other man;
for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles
himself will be exalted.
to pray and not to turn coward (faint, lose heart, and give up).
2 He said, In a certain city there was a judge who neither reverenced
and feared God nor respected or considered man.
3 And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and
saying, Protect and defend and give me justice against my adversary.
4 And for a time he would not; but later he said to himself, Though I have
neither reverence or fear for God nor respect or consideration for man,
5 Yet because this widow continues to bother me, I will defend and
protect and avenge her, lest she give me intolerable annoyance and
wear me out by her continual coming or at the last she come and rail on
me or assault me or strangle me.
6 Then the Lord said, Listen to what the unjust judge says!
7 And will not [our just] God defend and protect and avenge His elect
(His chosen ones), who cry to Him day and night? Will He defer them
and delay help on their behalf?
8 I tell you, He will defend and protect and avenge them speedily.
However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find [persistence in] faith
on the earth?
9 He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves
and were confident that they were righteous [that they were upright and
in right standing with God] and scorned and made nothing of all the rest
of men:
10 Two men went up into the temple [enclosure] to pray, the one a
Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
11 The Pharisee took his stand ostentatiously and began to pray thus
before and with himself: God, I thank You that I am not like the rest of
men—extortioners (robbers), swindlers [unrighteous in heart and life],
adulterers—or even like this tax collector here.
12 I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I gain.
13 But the tax collector, [merely] standing at a distance, would not even
lift up his eyes to heaven, but kept striking his breast, saying, O God, be
favorable (be gracious, be merciful) to me, the especially wicked sinner
that I am!
14 I tell you, this man went down to his home justified (forgiven and
made upright and in right standing with God), rather than the other man;
for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles
himself will be exalted.