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Luke 18:1¹Then Jesus told them a parable to show them they should always pray and not lose heart.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Col 4:2 Rom 12:12 1 Thess 5:17 Phil 4:6 Eph 6:18 Ps 55:16-17 Jer 29:12 Luke 21:36 Gal 6:9 Ps 86:3

Luke 18:2²He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected people.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 29:7 Luke 18:4 Ps 8:1-4 Ezek 22:6-8 Jer 22:16-17 Mic 3:1-3 2 Chr 19:3-9 Exod 18:21-22 Job 29:7-17 Rom 3:14-18

Luke 18:3³There was also a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 1:17 Deut 27:19 Jer 5:28 Job 22:9 Job 29:13 Luke 18:7-8 Rom 13:3-4 2 Sam 14:5-24 Isa 1:21-23

Luke 18:4⁴For a while he refused, but later on he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 4:12-13 Luke 12:17 Luke 16:3

Luke 18:5⁵yet because this widow keeps on bothering me, I will give her justice, or in the end she will wear me out by her unending pleas.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 11:8 Luke 18:39 Judg 16:16 Mark 10:47-48 2 Sam 13:24-27 Matt 15:23

Luke 18:6⁶And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unrighteous judge says!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 7:13

Luke 18:7⁷Won’t God give justice to his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay long to help them?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Pet 3:9 Heb 10:35-37 1 Tim 5:5 Luke 11:13 Jer 20:11-13 2 Thess 1:6 Luke 2:37 Rev 6:10 Hab 2:3 Matt 7:11

Luke 18:8⁸I tell you, he will give them justice speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 10:23-26 2 Pet 3:8-9 Matt 24:9-13 Ps 46:5 Luke 17:26-30 Ps 143:7-9 1 Thess 5:1-3 2 Pet 2:3 Matt 24:24 Jas 5:1-8

Luke 18:9⁹Jesus also told this parable to some who were confident that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 16:15 Prov 30:12 Isa 65:5 Rom 10:3 Rom 14:10 Rom 9:31-32 John 7:47-49 Luke 7:39 Luke 18:11 Luke 19:7

Luke 18:10¹⁰“Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 21:31-32 1 Kgs 8:30 2 Kgs 20:5 Acts 23:6-8 Luke 7:29-30 2 Kgs 20:8 Acts 26:5 Acts 3:1 Luke 1:9-10 Luke 19:46

Luke 18:11¹¹The Pharisee stood and prayed about himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: extortionists, unrighteous people, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 6:5 Isa 65:5 Rev 3:17 Jer 2:35 Mark 11:25 Jas 2:9-12 1 Cor 15:9-10 1 Cor 4:7-8 Ezek 33:31 Gal 3:10

Luke 18:12¹²I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of everything I get.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 11:42 Matt 23:23-24 Matt 9:14 Luke 17:10 1 Tim 4:8 Mal 3:8 Matt 15:7-9 Matt 6:1 1 Cor 1:29 1 Sam 15:13

Luke 18:13¹³The tax collector, however, stood far off and would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, be merciful to me, sinner that I am!’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 John 1:8-10 Ezra 9:6 1 Tim 1:15 Ps 41:4 Heb 8:12 Luke 7:6-7 Heb 4:16 Luke 23:48 Acts 2:37 Luke 5:8

Luke 18:14¹⁴I tell you that this man went down to his home justified rather than the Pharisee. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 14:11 Luke 16:15 Jas 4:10 Matt 23:12 Prov 29:23 Jas 4:6 Luke 1:52 Ps 138:6 Isa 57:15 Matt 5:3

Luke 18:15¹⁵Now people were even bringing their babies to him for him to touch. But when the disciples saw it, they began to scold those who brought them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mark 10:13-16 Matt 19:13-15 1 Sam 1:24 Luke 9:49-50 Luke 9:54

Luke 18:16¹⁶But Jesus called for the children, saying, “Let the little children come to me and do not try to stop them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 18:3-4 1 Cor 14:20 1 Cor 7:14 1 Pet 2:2 Deut 31:12 Acts 2:39 Gen 21:4 Deut 29:11 2 Chr 20:13 Gen 47:10-14

Luke 18:17¹⁷I tell you the truth, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 18:3 Mark 10:15 Ps 131:1-2 1 Pet 1:14

Luke 18:18¹⁸Now a certain leader asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mark 10:17-31 Acts 16:30 Matt 19:16-30 Acts 2:37 Ezek 33:31 Luke 10:25-28 Luke 6:46 John 13:13-15 Mal 1:6

Luke 18:19¹⁹Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jas 1:17 Job 15:14-16 Heb 7:26 Job 14:4 Job 25:4 1 Tim 3:16 Luke 1:35 Luke 11:13

Luke 18:20²⁰You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 20:12-17 Deut 5:16-21 Rom 13:9 Eph 6:2 Matt 19:17-19 Col 3:20 Gal 3:10-13 Isa 8:20 Jas 2:8-11 Mark 10:18-19

Luke 18:21²¹The man replied, “I have wholeheartedly obeyed all these laws since my youth.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Phil 3:6 Luke 15:7 Luke 18:11-12 Mark 10:20-21 Matt 19:20-21 Rom 10:2-3 Luke 15:29

Luke 18:22²²When Jesus heard this, he said to him, “One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 12:33 1 Tim 6:18-19 Matt 19:21 Matt 6:19-20 Luke 10:42 Luke 16:9 Luke 9:57-62 2 Pet 3:8 Acts 2:44-45 Acts 4:34-37

Luke 18:23²³But when the man heard this he became very sad, for he was extremely wealthy.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 33:31 1 John 2:15 Job 31:24-25 Luke 12:15 Luke 21:34 Luke 8:14 Mark 10:22 Matt 19:22 Col 3:5 Eph 5:5

Luke 18:24²⁴When Jesus noticed this, he said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jas 2:5-7 Mark 10:23-27 Prov 11:28 Prov 30:9 Matt 19:23-25 Ps 10:3 1 Cor 1:26-27 1 Tim 6:9-10 2 Cor 7:9-10 Deut 6:10-12

Luke 18:25²⁵In 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.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 23:24

Luke 18:26²⁶Those who heard this said, “Then who can be saved?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 13:23

Luke 18:27²⁷He replied, “What is impossible for mere humans is possible for God.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 32:17 Matt 19:26 Luke 1:37 Job 42:2 Gen 18:14 Eph 1:19-20 Dan 4:35 Eph 2:4-10 Zech 8:6

Luke 18:28²⁸And Peter said, “Look, we have left everything we own to follow you!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mark 10:28 Phil 3:7 Matt 19:27 Luke 5:11 Matt 4:19-22 Matt 9:9

Luke 18:29²⁹Then Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, there is no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of God’s kingdomCopy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mark 10:29-31 Luke 14:26-28 Matt 10:37-39 Matt 19:28-30 Deut 33:9

Luke 18:30³⁰who will not receive many times more in this age —and in the age to come, eternal life.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 13:5-6 Job 42:10 Rev 2:17 Luke 12:31-32 Matt 12:32 1 Tim 4:8 1 Tim 6:6 Ps 119:103 Ps 119:111 Ps 119:127

Luke 18:31³¹Then Jesus took the twelve aside and said to them, “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 20:17-19 Isa 53:1-12 Mark 10:32-34 Ps 22:1-31 Matt 16:21 Luke 24:44-46 Luke 9:22 Luke 9:51 Zech 13:7 Dan 9:26

Luke 18:32³²For he will be handed over to the Gentiles; he will be mocked, mistreated, and spat on.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 23:11 Isa 50:6 Isa 53:3 Acts 3:13 Mark 14:65 Isa 52:14 Matt 16:21 Matt 26:67 Mic 5:1 Acts 2:23

Luke 18:33³³They will flog him severely and kill him. Yet on the third day he will rise again.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 15:3-4 Luke 24:7 Luke 24:21 Matt 16:21 Matt 27:63

Luke 18:34³⁴But the twelve understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what Jesus meant.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 9:45 Mark 9:32 John 10:6 John 12:16 John 16:1-19 Luke 2:50 Luke 24:25 Luke 24:45

Luke 18:35³⁵As Jesus approached Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the road begging.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 20:29-34 Mark 10:46-52 John 9:8 Luke 16:20-21 1 Sam 2:8

Luke 18:36³⁶When he heard a crowd going by, he asked what was going on.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 15:26 Matt 21:10-11

Luke 18:37³⁷They told him, “Jesus the Nazarene is passing by.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 19:19 Matt 2:23 2 Cor 6:2 Acts 2:22 Acts 4:10 John 1:45 John 12:35-36 Luke 2:51 Mark 2:1-3

Luke 18:38³⁸So he called out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 9:27 Luke 18:39 Matt 15:22 Isa 9:6-7 Matt 21:9 Rom 1:3 Jer 23:5 Matt 12:23 Matt 22:42-45 Rev 22:16

Luke 18:39³⁹And those who were in front scolded him to get him to be quiet, but he shouted even more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 32:26-28 Ps 141:1 Luke 11:8-10 Luke 18:15 Matt 26:40-44 2 Cor 12:8 Jer 29:12-13 Luke 11:52 Luke 18:1 Luke 18:38

Luke 18:40⁴⁰So Jesus stopped and ordered the beggar to be brought to him. When the man came near, Jesus asked him,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mark 10:48-52 Matt 20:31-34

Luke 18:41⁴¹“What do you want me to do for you?” He replied, “Lord, let me see again.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 3:5-15 Matt 20:21-22 Phil 4:6 Rom 8:25

Luke 18:42⁴²Jesus said to him, “Receive your sight; your faith has healed you.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 17:19 Luke 8:48 Matt 8:3 Luke 7:50 Matt 9:22 Ps 107:20 Matt 15:28 Ps 33:9

Luke 18:43⁴³And immediately he regained his sight and followed Jesus, praising God. When all the people saw it, they too gave praise to God.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 146:8 2 Thess 1:10-12 Acts 11:18 Acts 26:18 Acts 4:21 Gal 1:24 Isa 29:18-19 Isa 35:5 Isa 42:16 Isa 43:21

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