Luke 18:4
And for a time he would not: but later, he said to himself, Though I have no fear of God or respect for man,
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- Luke 12:17 : 17 And he said to himself, What is to be done? for I have no place in which to put all my fruit.
- Luke 16:3 : 3 And the servant said to himself, What am I to do now that my lord takes away my position? I have not enough strength for working in the fields, and I would be shamed if I made requests for money from people in the streets.
- Heb 4:12-13 : 12 For the word of God is living and full of power, and is sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through and making a division even of the soul and the spirit, the bones and the muscles, and quick to see the thoughts and purposes of the heart. 13 And there is nothing made which is not completely clear to him; there is nothing covered, but all things are open to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
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- Luke 18:1-33 verses84%
1 And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;
2 Saying, There was a judge in a certain town, who had no fear of God or respect for man:
3 And there was a widow in that town, and she kept on coming to him and saying, Give me my right against the man who has done me wrong.
- Luke 18:5-84 verses81%
5 Because this widow is a trouble to me, I will give her her right; for if not, I will be completely tired out by her frequent coming.
6 And the Lord said, Give ear to the words of the evil judge.
7 And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?
8 I say to you that he will quickly do right in their cause. But when the Son of man comes, will there be any faith on earth?
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30 And he would not: but went and put him into prison till he had made payment of the debt.
- Luke 12:17-182 verses72%
17 And he said to himself, What is to be done? for I have no place in which to put all my fruit.
18 And he said, This I will do: I will take down my store-houses and make greater ones, and there I will put all my grain and my goods.
- Luke 11:7-82 verses71%
7 And he, from inside the house, would say in answer, Do not be a trouble to me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; it is not possible for me to get up and give to you?
8 I say to you, Though he will not get up and give to him, because he is his friend, still, if he keeps on making his request, he will get up and give him as much as he has need of.
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24 For this cause men go in fear of him; he has no respect for any who are wise in heart.
- Matt 21:29-302 verses70%
29 And he said in answer, I will not: but later, changing his decision, he went.
30 And he came to the second and said the same. And he made answer and said, I go, sir: and went not.
- Luke 19:21-222 verses69%
21 Because I was in fear of you, for you are a hard man: you take up what you have not put down, and get in grain where you have not put seed.
22 He said to him, By the words of your mouth you will be judged, you bad servant. You had knowledge that I am a hard man, taking up what I have not put down and getting in grain where I have not put seed;
- Ps 36:1-22 verses69%
1 <To the chief music-maker. Of the servant of the Lord. Of David.> The sin of the evil-doer says in his heart, There is no fear of the Lord before his eyes.
2 For he takes comfort in the thought that his sin will not be uncovered and hated.
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4 The evil-doer in his pride says, God will not make a search. All his thoughts are, There is no God.
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3 And the servant said to himself, What am I to do now that my lord takes away my position? I have not enough strength for working in the fields, and I would be shamed if I made requests for money from people in the streets.
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35 Then I would say what is in my mind without fear of him; for there is no cause of fear in myself.
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13 Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it?
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4 Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.
- Eccl 8:12-132 verses68%
12 Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his life is long, I am certain that it will be well for those who go in fear of God and are in fear before him.
13 But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.
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18 For fear that the Lord may see it, and it may be evil in his eyes, and his wrath may be turned away from him.
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11 He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.
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23 For he does not give man a fixed time to come before him to be judged.
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48 But if that evil servant says in his heart, My lord is a long time in coming;
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4 Is it because you give him honour that he is sending punishment on you and is judging you?
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15 Even if my cause was good, I would not be able to give an answer; I would make request for grace from him who was against me.
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32 For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.
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34 And his lord was very angry, and put him in the hands of those who would give him punishment till he made payment of all the debt.
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7 See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself strong in his wealth.
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8 Will he not say, Get a meal for me, and make yourself ready and see to my needs till I have had my food and drink; and after that you may have yours?
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14 How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him.
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29 Say not, I will do to him as he has done to me; I will give the man the reward of his work.
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16 And so great was his need that he would have been glad to take the pigs' food, and no one gave him anything.
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13 Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?
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13 The tax-farmer, on the other hand, keeping far away, and not lifting up even his eyes to heaven, made signs of grief and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
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4 The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.
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5 And he said to them, Which of you, having a friend, would go to him in the middle of the night and say to him, Friend, let me have three cakes of bread;
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21 So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.
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24 And he who had had the one talent came and said, Lord, I had knowledge that you are a hard man, getting in grain where you have not put seed, and making profits for which you have done no work:
- Matt 18:25-262 verses65%
25 And because he was not able to make payment, his lord gave orders for him, and his wife, and his sons and daughters, and all he had, to be given for money, and payment to be made.
26 So the servant went down on his face and gave him worship, saying, Lord, give me time to make payment and I will give you all.
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29 And again he said to him, By chance there may be forty there. And he said, I will not do it if there are forty.
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14 I will not put forward words like these, or make use of your sayings in answer to him.
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1 And another time he said to the disciples, There was a certain man of great wealth who had a servant; and it was said to him that this servant was wasting his goods.