Luke 18:4

World English Bible (2000)

He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,

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Referenced Verses

  • Luke 12:17 : 17 He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?'
  • Luke 16:3 : 3 "The manager said within himself, 'What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don't have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.
  • Heb 4:12-13 : 12 For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13 There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

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  • Luke 18:1-3
    3 verses
    84%

    1 He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

    2 saying, "There was a judge in a certain city who didn't fear God, and didn't respect man.

    3 A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, 'Defend me from my adversary!'

  • Luke 18:5-8
    4 verses
    81%

    5 yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.'"

    6 The Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.

    7 Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

    8 I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"

  • Matt 18:30
    72%

    30 He would not, but went and cast him into prison, until he should pay back that which was due.

  • Luke 12:17-18
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    17 He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?'

    18 He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

  • Luke 11:7-8
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    71%

    7 and he from within will answer and say, 'Don't bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can't get up and give it to you'?

    8 I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.

  • Job 37:24
    70%

    24 Therefore men revere him. He doesn't regard any who are wise of heart."

  • Matt 21:29-30
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    70%

    29 He answered, 'I will not,' but afterward he changed his mind, and went.

    30 He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, 'I go, sir,' but he didn't go.

  • Luke 19:21-22
    2 verses
    69%

    21 for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn't lay down, and reap that which you didn't sow.'

    22 "He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn't lay down, and reaping that which I didn't sow.

  • Ps 36:1-2
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    1 An oracle is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: "There is no fear of God before his eyes."

    2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.

  • Ps 10:4
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    4 The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

  • Luke 16:3
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    3 "The manager said within himself, 'What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don't have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.

  • Job 9:35
    68%

    35 then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.

  • Ps 10:13
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    13 Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, "God won't call me into account?"

  • Job 15:4
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    4 Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.

  • Eccl 8:12-13
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    12 Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

    13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God.

  • Prov 24:18
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    18 lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

  • Ps 10:11
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    11 He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it."

  • Job 34:23
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    23 For he doesn't need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.

  • Matt 24:48
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    48 But if that evil servant should say in his heart, 'My lord is delaying his coming,'

  • Job 22:4
    67%

    4 Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?

  • Job 9:15
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    15 Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn't answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.

  • Job 9:32
    67%

    32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

  • Matt 18:34
    67%

    34 His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all that was due to him.

  • Ps 52:7
    67%

    7 "Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness."

  • Luke 17:8
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    8 and will not rather tell him, 'Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink'?

  • Job 35:14
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    14 How much less when you say you don't see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!

  • Prov 24:29
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    29 Don't say, "I will do to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work."

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    16 He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.

  • Job 33:13
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    13 Why do you strive against him, because he doesn't give account of any of his matters?

  • Luke 18:13
    66%

    13 But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!'

  • Prov 20:4
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    4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

  • Luke 11:5
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    5 He said to them, "Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

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    21 So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."

  • Matt 25:24
    66%

    24 "He also who had received the one talent came and said, 'Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter.

  • Matt 18:25-26
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    65%

    25 But because he couldn't pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

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    29 He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty found there?" He said, "I will not do it for the forty's sake."

  • Job 32:14
    65%

    14 for he has not directed his words against me; neither will I answer him with your speeches.

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    1 He also said to his disciples, "There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.