Luke 18:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34
Luke 18:1 NLT
One day Jesus told his disciples a story to show that they should always pray and never give up.
Luke 18:2 NLT
“There was a judge in a certain city,” he said, “who neither feared God nor cared about people.
Luke 18:3 NLT
A widow of that city came to him repeatedly, saying, ‘Give me justice in this dispute with my enemy.’
Luke 18:4 NLT
The judge ignored her for a while, but finally he said to himself, ‘I don’t fear God or care about people
Luke 18:9 NLT
Then Jesus told this story to some who had great confidence in their own righteousness and scorned everyone else
Luke 18:10 NLT
“Two men went to the Temple to pray. One was a Pharisee, and the other was a despised tax collector.
Luke 18:17 NLT
I tell you the truth, anyone who doesn’t receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”
Luke 18:24 NLT
When Jesus saw this, he said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the Kingdom of God!
Luke 18:25 NLT
In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!”
Luke 18:30 NLT
will be repaid many times over in this life, and will have eternal life in the world to come.”
Luke 18:32 NLT
He will be handed over to the Romans, and he will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit upon.
Luke 18:33 NLT
They will flog him with a whip and kill him, but on the third day he will rise again.”