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  "id": "luke-18-2",
  "source": "Luke",
  "pericope": "The Parable of the Unjust Judge",
  "chapter": 18,
  "verse_start": 1,
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    {
      "v": 1,
      "text": "He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray and not give up,"
    },
    {
      "v": 2,
      "text": "saying,"
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      "v": 2,
      "text": "“There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God and didn’t respect man.",
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      "v": 3,
      "text": "A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, ‘Defend me from my adversary!’",
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      "v": 4,
      "text": "He wouldn’t for a while; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man,",
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      "v": 5,
      "text": "yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.’”",
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    {
      "v": 6,
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      "v": 6,
      "text": "The Lord said,"
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    {
      "v": 6,
      "text": "“Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.",
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      "v": 7,
      "text": "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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      "v": 8,
      "text": "I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”",
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      "v": 1,
      "text": "And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;"
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      "v": 2,
      "text": "Saying,"
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      "v": 2,
      "text": "There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:",
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      "v": 3,
      "text": "And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.",
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      "v": 4,
      "text": "And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;",
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      "v": 5,
      "text": "Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.",
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      "v": 6,
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      "v": 6,
      "text": "And the Lord said,"
    },
    {
      "v": 6,
      "text": "Hear what the unjust judge saith.",
      "wj": true
    },
    {
      "v": 7,
      "text": "And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?",
      "wj": true
    },
    {
      "v": 8,
      "text": "I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?",
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    }
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  "aland_number": 236,
  "epoch": 3,
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