4"For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, 'Even though I don't fear God or care about men,
4"For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, 'Even though I don't fear God or care about men,
1 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.
2 He said: "In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men.
3 And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, 'Grant me justice against my adversary.'
4 "For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, 'Even though I don't fear God or care about men,
5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won't eventually wear me out with her coming!' "
6 And the Lord said, "Listen to what the unjust judge says.
18:4And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;
18:4And he would not for a long time. But afterwards he said within himself: Although I fear not God, nor regard man,
18:4And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;
18:4And he would not for a time; but afterwards he said within himself, If even I fear not God and respect not man,
18:4And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;
18:4And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;
18:4He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,
18:4and he would not for a time, but after these things he said in himself, Even if God I do not fear, and man do not regard,
18:4And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;