The Parable of the Persistent Widow

¹And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.²He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man.³And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’⁴For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man,⁵yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’”⁶And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says.⁷And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?⁸I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”