Luke 17:33-18:1

English Standard Version

^33 (A)Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will ^(B)keep it. ³⁴ I tell you, in that night there will be two in one bed. One will be taken and the other left. ^35 (C)There will be two women ^(D)grinding together. One will be taken and the other left.”^{[a] 37} And they said to him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, ^(E)“Where the corpse^[b] is, there the vultures^[c] will gather.”

The Parable of the Persistent Widow

18 And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought ^(F)always to pray and not ^(G)lose heart.