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Luke 18:7
And will not God revenge his elect who cry to him day and night? And will he have patience in their regard?
Luke 18:7 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
Luke 18:7 in other translations
And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
Will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He continue to defer their help?
Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
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In context
4 And he would not for a long time. But afterwards he said within himself: Although I fear not God nor regard man,
5 Yet because this widow is troublesome to me, I will avenge her, lest continually coming she weary me.
6 And the Lord said: Hear what the unjust judge saith.
7 And will not God revenge his elect who cry to him day and night? And will he have patience in their regard?
8 I say to you that he will quickly revenge them. But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?
9 And to some who trusted in themselves as just and despised others, he spoke also this parable:
10 Two men went up into the temple to pray: the one a Pharisee and the other a publican.
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