1. And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.
2. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man.
3. And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’
4. For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man,
5. yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’”