Luke 18:2

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • Prov 29:7 : 7 The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren't concerned about knowledge.
  • Luke 18:4 : 4 He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,
  • Rom 3:14-18 : 14 "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness." 15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood. 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways. 17 The way of peace, they haven't known." 18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes."
  • Ezek 22:6-8 : 6 Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood. 7 In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow. 8 You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
  • Mic 3:1-3 : 1 I said, "Please listen, you heads of Jacob, And rulers of the house of Israel: Isn't it for you to know justice? 2 You who hate the good, And love the evil; Who tear off their skin, And their flesh from off their bones; 3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, And flay their skin from off them, And break their bones, And chop them in pieces, as for the pot, And as flesh within the caldron.
  • Exod 18:21-22 : 21 Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. 22 Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you.
  • 2 Chr 19:3-9 : 3 Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God. 4 Jehoshaphat lived at Jerusalem: and he went out again among the people from Beersheba to the hill-country of Ephraim, and brought them back to Yahweh, the God of their fathers. 5 He set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city, 6 and said to the judges, Consider what you do: for you don't judge for man, but for Yahweh; and [he is] with you in the judgment. 7 Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes. 8 Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites and the priests, and of the heads of the fathers' [houses] of Israel, for the judgment of Yahweh, and for controversies. They returned to Jerusalem. 9 He charged them, saying, Thus shall you do in the fear of Yahweh, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
  • Job 29:7-9 : 7 When I went forth to the city gate, When I prepared my seat in the street, 8 The young men saw me and hid themselves, The aged rose up and stood; 9 The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth; 10 The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth. 11 For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; And when the eye saw me, it commended me: 12 Because I delivered the poor who cried, And the fatherless also, who had none to help him. 13 The blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem. 15 I was eyes to the blind, And feet to the lame. 16 I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out. 17 I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.
  • Ps 8:1-4 : 1 > Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth, Who has set your glory above the heavens! 2 From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, Because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger. 3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, The moon and the stars, which you have ordained; 4 What is man, that you think of him? The son of man, that you care for him?
  • Isa 33:8 : 8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceases: [the enemy] has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities, he doesn't regard man.
  • Jer 22:16-17 : 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh. 17 But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

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  • Luke 18:3-10
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    3 A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, 'Defend me from my adversary!'

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

    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?"

    9 He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.

    10 "Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.

  • Luke 18:1
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    1 He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

  • 2 Chr 19:6-7
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    6 and said to the judges, Consider what you do: for you don't judge for man, but for Yahweh; and [he is] with you in the judgment.

    7 Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.

  • Rom 3:18
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    18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes."

  • Ps 36:1
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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."

  • Rom 2:11
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    11 For there is no partiality with God.

  • Prov 18:5
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    5 To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, Nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

  • Exod 23:3
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    3 neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.

  • Lev 19:15
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    15 "'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

  • Rom 2:2-3
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    2 We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

    3 Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

  • Matt 7:1
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    1 "Don't judge, so that you won't be judged.

  • Eccl 5:8
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    8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don't marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.

  • Exod 23:6
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    6 "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

  • Jer 22:16
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    16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh.

  • Luke 16:1
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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.

  • Job 37:24
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    24 Therefore men revere him. He doesn't regard any who are wise of heart."

  • Mal 2:17
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    17 You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, 'How have we wearied him?' In that you say, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and he delights in them;' or 'Where is the God of justice?'

  • Luke 19:21-22
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    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.

  • Luke 21:2
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    2 He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.{literally, "two lepta." 2 lepta was about 1% of a day's wages for an agricultural laborer.}

  • Rom 3:6
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    6 May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?

  • Deut 27:19
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    19 Cursed be he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow. All the people shall say, Amen.

  • Deut 25:1
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    1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and [the judges] judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;

  • Luke 18:13
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    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!'

  • Deut 1:17
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    17 You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.

  • 1 Pet 1:17
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    17 If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your living as strangers here in reverent fear:

  • Prov 24:23
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    23 These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.

  • 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 10:18
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    18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, That man who is of the earth may terrify no more.

  • Lam 3:36
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    36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn't approve.

  • Ezek 18:8
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    8 he who has not given forth on interest, neither has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

  • Ps 82:2
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    2 "How long will you judge unjustly, And show partiality to the wicked?" Selah.

  • Luke 16:15
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    15 He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

  • 1 Cor 5:13
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    13 But those who are outside, God judges. "Put away the wicked man from among yourselves."

  • John 7:24
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    24 Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

  • Ps 9:19
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    19 Arise, Yahweh! Don't let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight.

  • Job 31:28
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    28 This also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God who is above.

  • Jas 2:4
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    4 haven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

  • Eccl 8:13
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    13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God.

  • Job 18:21
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    21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, This is the place of him who doesn't know God."

  • Isa 10:2
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    2 to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

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