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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,

Yet because this widow continues to bother me, I will defend and protect and avenge her, lest she give me [a]intolerable annoyance and wear me out by her continual coming or [b]at the last she come and rail on me or [c]assault me or [d]strangle me.

Then the Lord said, Listen to what the unjust judge says!

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 18:5 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
  2. Luke 18:5 William Tyndale, The Tyndale Bible.
  3. Luke 18:5 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
  4. Luke 18:5 John Wycliffe, The Wycliffe Bible.

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