Luke 18:2

Geneva Bible (1560)

Saying, There was a iudge in a certaine citie, which feared not God, neither reuereced man.

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  • Prov 29:7 : 7 The righteous knoweth the cause of the poore: but the wicked regardeth not knowledge.
  • Luke 18:4 : 4 And hee would not of a long time: but afterward he said with himselfe, Though I feare not God, nor reuerence man,
  • Rom 3:14-18 : 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitternesse. 15 Their feete are swift to shead blood. 16 Destruction & calamity are in their waies, 17 And ye way of peace they haue not knowen. 18 The feare of God is not before their eies.
  • Ezek 22:6-8 : 6 Beholde, the princes of Israel euery one in thee was ready to his power, to shed blood. 7 In thee haue they despised father and mother: in the middes of thee haue they oppressed the stranger: in thee haue they vexed the fatherlesse and the widowe. 8 Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast polluted my Sabbaths.
  • Mic 3:1-3 : 1 And I sayd, Heare, I pray you, O heads of Iaakob, and yee princes of the house of Israel: should not ye knowe iudgement? 2 But they hate the good, and loue the euill: they plucke off their skinnes from them, & their flesh from their bones. 3 And they eate also the flesh of my people, & flay off their skinne from them, & they breake their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
  • Exod 18:21-22 : 21 Moreouer, prouide thou among al the people men of courage, fearing God, men dealing truely, hating couetousnesse: and appoynt such ouer them to be rulers ouer thousandes, rulers ouer hundreths, rulers ouer fifties, and rulers ouer tennes. 22 And let them iudge the people at all seasons: but euery great matter let them bring vnto thee, and let them iudge all small causes: so shall it be easier for thee, when they shal beare the burden with thee.
  • 2 Chr 19:3-9 : 3 Neuertheles good things are found in thee, because thou hast taken away ye groues out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seeke God. 4 So Iehoshaphat dwelt at Ierusalem, and returned & went through the people from Beer-sheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them againe vnto the Lord God of their fathers. 5 And hee set iudges in the lande throughout all the strong cities of Iudah, citie by citie, 6 And said to the iudges, Take heede what ye doe: for yee execute not the iudgements of man, but of the Lorde, and he will be with you in the cause and iudgement. 7 Wherefore nowe let the feare of the Lorde be vpon you: take heede, and do it: for there is no iniquitie with the Lord our God, neither respect of persons, nor receiuing of reward. 8 Moreouer in Ierusalem did Iehoshaphat set of the Leuites, and of the Priests and of the chiefe of the families of Israel, for the iudgement and cause of the Lord: & they returned to Ierusale. 9 And he charged them, saying, Thus shall yee doe in the feare of the Lord faithfully and with a perfite heart.
  • Job 29:7-9 : 7 When I went out to the gate, euen to the iudgement seat, and when I caused them to prepare my seate in the streete. 8 The yong men saw me, & hid themselues, and the aged arose, and stood vp. 9 The princes stayed talke, and layde their hand on their mouth. 10 The voyce of princes was hidde, and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of their mouth. 11 And when the eare heard me, it blessed me: and when the eye sawe me, it gaue witnesse to me. 12 For I deliuered the poore that cryed, and the fatherlesse, and him that had none to helpe him. 13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish, came vpon me, and I caused the widowes heart to reioyce. 14 I put on iustice, and it couered me: my iudgement was as a robe, and a crowne. 15 I was the eyes to the blinde, and I was the feete to the lame. 16 I was a father vnto the poore, and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently. 17 I brake also the chawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the praye out of his teeth.
  • Ps 8:1-4 : 1 To him that excelleth on Gittith. A Psalme of Dauid. O lord our Lord, how excellent is thy Name in all the worlde! which hast set thy glory aboue the heauens. 2 Out of the mouth of babes & suckelings hast thou ordeined strength, because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemie and the auenger. 3 When I beholde thine heauens, euen the workes of thy fingers, the moone and the starres which thou hast ordeined, 4 What is man, say I, that thou art mindefull of him? and the sonne of man, that thou visitest him?
  • Isa 33:8 : 8 The pathes are waste: the wayfaring man ceaseth: hee hath broken the couenant: hee hath contemned the cities: he regarded no man.
  • Jer 22:16-17 : 16 When he iudged the cause of the afflicted and the poore, he prospered: was not this because he knewe me, saith the Lorde? 17 But thine eyes and thine heart are but only for thy couetousnesse, and for to sheade innocent blood, and for oppression, and for destruction, euen to doe this.

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  • Luke 18:3-10
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    3And there was a widowe in that citie, which came vnto him, saying, Doe mee iustice against mine aduersarie.

    4And hee would not of a long time: but afterward he said with himselfe, Though I feare not God, nor reuerence man,

    5Yet because this widowe troubleth mee, I will doe her right, lest at the last shee come and make me wearie.

    6And the Lord said, Heare what the vnrighteous iudge saith.

    7Now shall not God auenge his elect, which cry day and night vnto him, yea, though he suffer long for them?

    8I tell you he will auenge them quickly: but when the Sonne of man commeth, shall he finde faith on the earth?

    9He spake also this parable vnto certaine which trusted in themselues that they were iust, and despised other.

    10Two men went vp into the Temple to pray: the one a Pharise, and the other a Publican.

  • Luke 18:1
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    1And he spake also a parable vnto them, to this ende, that they ought alwayes to pray, and not to waxe faint,

  • 2 Chr 19:6-7
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    6And said to the iudges, Take heede what ye doe: for yee execute not the iudgements of man, but of the Lorde, and he will be with you in the cause and iudgement.

    7Wherefore nowe let the feare of the Lorde be vpon you: take heede, and do it: for there is no iniquitie with the Lord our God, neither respect of persons, nor receiuing of reward.

  • Rom 3:18
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    18The feare of God is not before their eies.

  • Ps 36:1
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    1To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid, the seruant of the Lord. Wickednes sayeth to the wicked man, euen in mine heart, that there is no feare of God before his eyes.

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    11For there is no respect of persons with God.

  • Prov 18:5
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    5It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to cause ye righteous to fall in iudgement.

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    3Thou shalt not esteeme a poore man in his cause.

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    15Ye shall not doe vniustly in iudgement. Thou shalt not fauour the person of the poore, nor honour the person of the mightie, but thou shalt iudge thy neighbour iustly.

  • Rom 2:2-3
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    2But we know that the iudgement of God is according to trueth, against them which comit such things.

    3And thinkest thou this, O thou man, that condemnest them which doe such thinges, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the iudgement of God?

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    1Ivdge not, that ye be not iudged.

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    8(5:7) If in a countrey thou seest the oppression of the poore, and the defrauding of iudgement and iustice, be not astonied at the matter: for hee that is higher then the highest, regardeth, and there be higher then they.

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    6Thou shalt not ouerthrowe the right of thy poore in his sute.

  • Jer 22:16
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    16When he iudged the cause of the afflicted and the poore, he prospered: was not this because he knewe me, saith the Lorde?

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    1And he sayde also vnto his disciples, There was a certaine riche man, which had a stewarde, and he was accused vnto him, that he wasted his goods.

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    24Let men therefore feare him: for he will not regarde any that are wise in their owne conceit.

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    17Yee haue wearied the Lorde with your woordes: yet yee say, Wherein haue we wearied him? When ye say, Euery one that doeth euill, is good in the sight of the Lorde, and he deliteth in them. Or where is the God of iudgement?

  • Luke 19:21-22
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    21For I feared thee, because thou art a straight man: thou takest vp, that thou layedst not downe, and reapest that thou diddest not sowe.

    22Then he sayde vnto him, Of thine owne mouth will I iudge thee, O euill seruant. Thou knewest that I am a straight man, taking vp that I layd not downe, & reaping that I did not sowe.

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    2And he sawe also a certaine poore widowe which cast in thither two mites:

  • Rom 3:6
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    6God forbid: els how shal God iudge ye world?

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    19Cursed be he that hindreth the right of the stranger, the fatherles, and the widow: And all the people shal say: So be it.

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    1When there shall be strife betweene men, and they shall come vnto iudgement, and sentence shall be giuen vpon them, and the righteous shall be iustified, and the wicked condemned,

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    13But the Publican standing a farre off, woulde not lift vp so much as his eyes to heauen, but smote his brest, saying, O God, be mercifull to me a sinner.

  • Deut 1:17
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    17Ye shal haue no respect of person in iudgement, but shall heare the small aswell as the great: yee shall not feare the face of man: for the iudgemet is Gods: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring vnto me, and I will heare it.

  • 1 Pet 1:17
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    17And if ye call him Father, which without respect of person iudgeth according to euery mans woorke, passe the time of your dwelling here in feare,

  • Prov 24:23
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    23Also these things perteine to the wise, It is not good to haue respect of any person in iudgement.

  • Prov 24:18
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    18Least the Lorde see it, and it displease him, and he turne his wrath from him.

  • Ps 10:18
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    18To iudge the fatherlesse and poore, that earthly man cause to feare no more.

  • Lam 3:36
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    36In subuerting a man in his cause: the Lord seeth it not.

  • Ezek 18:8
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    8And hath not giuen foorth vpon vsurie, neither hath taken any increase, but hath withdrawen his hand from iniquitie, and hath executed true iudgement betweene man and man,

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    2How long wil ye iudge vniustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

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    15Then he sayde vnto them, Yee are they, which iustifie your selues before men: but God knoweth your heartes: for that which is highly esteemed among men, is abomination in the sight of God.

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    13But God iudgeth them that are without. Put away therefore from among your selues that wicked man.

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    24Iudge not according to the appearance, but iudge righteous iudgement.

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    19Vp Lord: let not man preuaile: let the heathen be iudged in thy sight.

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    28(This also had bene an iniquitie to be condemned: for I had denied the God aboue)

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    4Are yee not partiall in your selues, and are become iudges of euill thoughts?

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    13But it shall not be well to the wicked, neither shall he prolong his dayes: he shall be like a shadowe, because he feareth not before God.

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    21Surely such are the habitations of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

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    2To keepe backe ye poore from iudgement, and to take away the iudgement of the poore of my people, that widowes may be their pray, and that they may spoyle the fatherlesse.