Luke 18:2-5

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

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 ^[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.