Luk 18:1-5 | ESV | STEP | And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart .

a ch. 21:36; Rom. 12:12; Eph. 6:18; Col. 4:2; 1 Thess. 5:17; [ch. 11:5-9]

Luke 18:1-5

The Parable of the Persistent Widow

1 And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought ^aalways to pray and not ^blose heart. 2 He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who ^cneither 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, ^d‘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.’”