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.’”
6. And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says.
7. And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?
8. I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
9. He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt:
10. “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
11. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayedthus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.