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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LUK.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He said: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, &#8216;Grant me justice against my adversary.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.18.3"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, &#8216;Even though I don&#8217;t fear God or care what people think,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won&#8217;t eventually come and attack me!&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.18.5"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And the Lord said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Listen to what the unjust judge says.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.18.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.18.8"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.18.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.18.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.18.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: &#8216;God, I thank you that I am not like other people&#8212;robbers, evildoers, adulterers&#8212;or even like this tax collector.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.18.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.18.12"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.18.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, &#8216;God, have mercy on me, a sinner.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.18.13"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.18.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.18.14"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.18.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">People were also bringing babies to Jesus for him to place his hands on them. When the disciples saw this, they rebuked them. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.18.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But Jesus called the children to him and said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.18.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.18.17"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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