Gen 32:26, Hos 12:4, Mat 20:31, Luk 11:8-10, 18:1-8 | ESV | STEP | Then he said , Let me go , for the day has broken . But Jacob said , I will not let you go unless you bless me.

Genesis 32:26

26 Then he said, “Let me go, for the day has broken.” But Jacob said, ^a“I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

Hosea 12:4

4 He strove with the angel and prevailed;
he wept and sought his favor.
^bHe met God ^{▼▼Hebrew him} at Bethel,
and there God spoke with us—

Matthew 20:31

31 The crowd ^drebuked them, telling them to be silent, but they cried out all the more, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!”

Luke 11:8-10

8 I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything ^ebecause he is his friend, yet because of his impudence ^{▼▼Or persistence} he will rise and give him whatever he needs. 9 And I tell you, ^gask, and ^hit will be given to you; ⁱseek, and you will find; ^jknock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

Luke 18:1-8

The Parable of the Persistent Widow

1 And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought ^kalways to pray and not ^llose heart. 2 He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who ^mneither feared God nor respected man. 3 And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ 4 For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ⁿ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’” 6 And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says. 7 And ^owill not God give justice to ^phis elect, ^qwho cry to him day and night? ^r, ^sWill he delay long over them? 8 I tell you, he will give justice to them ^tspeedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, ^uwill he find faith on earth?”