1. Then he told them a parable about the necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary. He said,
2. “There was a judge in a certain town who neither feared God nor respected any human being.
3. And a widow in that town used to come to him and say, ‘Render a just decision for me against my adversary.’
4. For a long time the judge was unwilling, but eventually he thought, ‘While it is true that I neither fear God nor respect any human being,
5. because this widow keeps bothering me I shall deliver a just decision for her lest she finally come and strike me.’”
6. The Lord said, “Pay attention to what the dishonest judge says.