Then Jesus told them a parable to show them they should always pray and not lose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected people. There was also a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ For a while he refused, but later on he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people, yet 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.’” And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unrighteous judge says! Won’t God give justice to his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay long to help them?
耶穌設一個比喻、是要人常常禱告、不可灰心．說、某城裡有一個官、不懼怕 神、也不尊重世人。 那城裡有個寡婦、常到他那裡、說、我有一個對頭、求你給我伸冤。他多日不准．後來心裡說、我雖不懼怕 神、也不尊重世人． 只因這寡婦煩擾我、我就給他伸冤罷．免得他常來纏磨我。主說、你們聽這不義之官所說的話。神的選民、晝夜呼籲他、他縱然為他們忍了多時、豈不終久給他們伸冤麼。
Luke 路加福音 18:1-7 NET