Luke 13:22-30

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The Narrow Door

²²^(A)He went on his way through towns and villages, teaching and ^(B)journeying toward Jerusalem. ²³And someone said to him, “Lord, ^(C)will those who are saved be few?” And he said to them, ²⁴^(D)“Strive ^(E)to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. ²⁵^(F)When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ^(G)‘Lord, open to us,’ then he will answer you, ^(H)‘I do not know where you come from.’ ²⁶Then you will begin to say, ^(I)‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ ²⁷But he will say, ‘I tell you, ^(J)I do not know where you come from. ^(K)Depart from me, all you workers of evil!’ ²⁸^(L)In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see ^(M)Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but ^(N)you yourselves cast out. ²⁹And ^(O)people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and ^(P)recline at table in the kingdom of God. ³⁰And behold, ^(Q)some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”

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Luke 18:1-8

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The Parable of the Persistent Widow

18 And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought ^(A)always to pray and not ^(B)lose heart. ²He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who ^(C)neither feared God nor respected man. ³And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ ⁴For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ^(D)‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, ⁵yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’” ⁶And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says. ⁷And ^(E)will not God give justice to ^(F)his elect, ^(G)who cry to him day and night? ^(H)^(I)Will he delay long over them? ⁸I tell you, he will give justice to them ^(J)speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, ^(K)will he find faith on earth?”