Luke 18
Reading Luke chapter 18 in the Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible, public-domain text from 1899.
Verses 1–10
1 And he spoke also a parable to them, that we ought always to pray and not to faint,
2 Saying: There was a judge in a certain city, who feared not God nor regarded man.
3 And there was a certain widow in that city; and she came to him, saying: Avenge me of my adversary.
4 And he would not for a long time. But afterwards he said within himself: Although I fear not God nor regard man,
5 Yet because this widow is troublesome to me, I will avenge her, lest continually coming she weary me.
6 And the Lord said: Hear what the unjust judge saith.
7 And will not God revenge his elect who cry to him day and night? And will he have patience in their regard?
8 I say to you that he will quickly revenge them. But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?
9 And to some who trusted in themselves as just and despised others, he spoke also this parable:
10 Two men went up into the temple to pray: the one a Pharisee and the other a publican.
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