Luke Chapter 18 verse 1 Holy Bible
And he spake a parable unto them to the end that they ought always to pray, and not to faint;
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And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;
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And he spoke also a parable to them to the purport that they should always pray and not faint,
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And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
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He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,
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And he spake also a simile to them, that it behoveth `us' always to pray, and not to faint,
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Luke 18 : 1 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 1-14. - The Lord speaks the two parables on prayer - the importunate widow, and the Pharisee and publican. Verse 1. - And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint. The formnla ἕλεγε δὲ καί, literally, "and he spake also," calls attention to the fact that the parable-teaching immediately to follow was a continuation of what had preceded. Indeed, the connection between the first of the two parables, which urges restless continued prayer, and the picture which the Lord had just drawn of men's state of utter forgetfulness of God, is obvious. "The Son of man has been rejected; he has gone from view; the masses are plunged in gross worldliness; men of God are become as rare as, in the days of Abraham, they were in Sodom. What, then, is the position of the Church? That of a widow whose only weapon is incessant prayer. It is only by means of this intense concentration that faith will be preserved. But such is precisely the disposition which Jesus fears may not be found even in the Church at his return" (Godet).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English ReadersXVIII.(1) That men ought always to pray, and not to faint.--The latter of the two verbs is noticeable as being used in the New Testament by St. Luke and St. Paul only (2Corinthians 4:1; 2Corinthians 4:16; Galatians 6:9; 2Thessalonians 3:13). The whole verse is remarkable as being one of the few instances (Luke 18:9 being another) in which a parable is introduced by a distinct statement as to its drift and aim. . . .
