Luke 18:7

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • Rev 6:10 : 10 They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"
  • Ps 88:1 : 1 > Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.
  • 2 Pet 3:9 : 9 The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
  • Heb 10:35-37 : 35 Therefore don't throw away your boldness, which has a great reward. 36 For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise. 37 "In a very little while, He who comes will come, and will not wait.
  • Rom 8:33 : 33 Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who justifies.
  • 2 Thess 1:6 : 6 Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,
  • 1 Tim 5:5 : 5 Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.
  • Jer 20:11-13 : 11 But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten. 12 But, Yahweh of Hosts, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause. 13 Sing to Yahweh, praise you Yahweh; for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evil-doers.
  • Hab 2:3 : 3 For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won't prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won't delay.
  • Matt 7:11 : 11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
  • Luke 2:37 : 37 and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn't depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.
  • Luke 11:13 : 13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"
  • 1 Sam 24:12-15 : 12 Yahweh judge between me and you, and Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand shall not be on you. 13 As says the proverb of the ancients, Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness; but my hand shall not be on you. 14 After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom do you pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea. 15 Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.
  • 1 Sam 26:10-11 : 10 David said, As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish. 11 Yahweh forbid that I should put forth my hand against Yahweh's anointed: but now please take the spear that is at his head, and the jar of water, and let us go.
  • Ps 9:8 : 8 He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.
  • Ps 10:15-18 : 15 Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none. 16 Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land. 17 Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear, 18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, That man who is of the earth may terrify no more.
  • Ps 13:1-2 : 1 > How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? 2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?
  • Ps 54:1-7 : 1 > Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might. 2 Hear my prayer, God. Listen to the words of my mouth. 3 For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah. 4 Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my soul. 5 He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth. 6 With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you. I will give thanks to your name, Yahweh, for it is good. 7 For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen triumph over my enemies.
  • 2 Tim 1:3 : 3 I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day
  • Titus 1:1 : 1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,
  • Col 3:12 : 12 Put on therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
  • 1 Thess 3:10 : 10 night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
  • Rev 7:15 : 15 Therefore they are before the throne of God, they serve him day and night in his temple. He who sits on the throne will spread his tent over them.
  • Rev 18:20 : 20 Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her."

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  • Luke 18:1-6
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    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!'

    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.

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

  • Luke 11:7-8
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    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.

  • 10 They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"

  • 9 Will God hear his cry, When trouble comes on him?

  • 33 Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who justifies.

  • 2 My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; In the night season, and am not silent.

  • 4 Yahweh God of hosts, How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

  • 17 Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.

  • 17 The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, And delivers them out of all their troubles.

  • 11 God is a righteous judge, Yes, a God who has indignation every day.

  • 7 "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.

  • 9 "By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

  • 41 They cried, but there was none to save; Even to Yahweh, but he didn't answer them.

  • 27 Then he will send out his angels, and will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the sky.

  • 29 Shall I not visit for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

  • 8 (for that righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds):

  • 2 Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you "Violence!" and will you not save?

  • 18 Therefore will Yahweh wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy on you: for Yahweh is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.

  • 28 So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, He heard the cry of the afflicted.

  • 1 > My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, And for him to listen to me.

  • 7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

  • 12 For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn't forget the cry of the afflicted.

  • 12 It happened in these days, that he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.

  • 20 Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones, whom he picked out, he shortened the days.

  • 3 Yahweh, how long will the wicked, How long will the wicked triumph?

  • 1 > Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

  • 23 If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

  • 7 Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.

  • 84 How many are the days of your servant? When will you execute judgment on those who persecute me?

  • 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,

  • 4 Then they will cry to Yahweh, But he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, Because they made their deeds evil."

  • 10 Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, That vengeance for your servants' blood is being poured out.

  • 9 The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

  • 3 Be merciful to me, Lord, For I call to you all day long.

  • 21 That he would maintain the right of a man with God, Of a son of man with his neighbor!

  • 18 Therefore will I also deal in wrath; my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.

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

  • 7 For the vineyard of Yahweh of Hosts is the house of Israel, And the men of Judah his pleasant plant: And he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; For righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

  • 4 He calls to the heavens above, To the earth, that he may judge his people:

  • 12 saying, 'These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!'

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

  • 1 Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, You God to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth.

  • 59 Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as every day shall require;