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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Luke 18:1 Catholic Bible: Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to teach them that they should always pray and never become discouraged. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/luke/18-1.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/luke/18-1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/luke/18-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/luke/1.htm">Luke</a> > <a href="/gntd/luke/18.htm">Chapter 18</a> > Verse 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../luke/17-37.htm" title="Luke 17:37">◄</a> Luke 18:1 <a href="../luke/18-2.htm" title="Luke 18:2">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/luke/18.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/luke/18.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to teach them that they should always pray and never become discouraged. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/luke/18.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/luke/18.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Jesus told his disciples a story about how they should keep on praying and never give up: <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/luke/18.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Then he told them a parable about the necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary. He said,<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/luke/18.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And he spoke also a parable to them, that we ought always to pray and not to faint,<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And he spoke also a parable to them, that we ought always to pray and not to faint,</p><p class="hdg">that.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/11-5.htm">Luke 11:5-8</a> And he said to them: Which of you shall have a friend and shall go to him at midnight and shall say to him: Friend, lend me three loaves, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/21-36.htm">Luke 21:36</a> Watch ye, therefore, praying at all times, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are to come and to stand before the Son of man.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/32-9.htm">Genesis 32:9-12,24-26</a> And Jacob said: O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac: O Lord who saidst to me, Return to thy land, and to the place of thy birth, and I will do well for thee. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/27-8.htm">Job 27:8-10</a> For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul? . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/55-16.htm">Psalm 55:16,17</a> But I have cried to God: and the Lord will save me. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/65-2.htm">Psalm 65:2</a> O hear my prayer: all flesh shall come to thee.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/86-3.htm">Psalm 86:3</a> Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I have cried to thee all the day.</p><p class="hdg2">*marg:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/102-17.htm">Psalm 102:17</a> He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: and he hath not despised their petition.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/142-5.htm">Psalm 142:5-7</a> I cried to thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my hope, my portion in the land of the living. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/29-12.htm">Jeremiah 29:12</a> And you shall call upon me, and you shall go. and you shall pray to me, and I will hear you.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/12-12.htm">Romans 12:12</a> Rejoicing in hope. Patient in tribulation. Instant in prayer.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ephesians/6-18.htm">Ephesians 6:18</a> By all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the spirit: and in the same watching with all instance and supplication for all the saints:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../philippians/4-6.htm">Philippians 4:6</a> Be nothing solicitous: but in every thing, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../colossians/4-2.htm">Colossians 4:2,12</a> Be instant in prayer: watching in it with thanksgiving. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_thessalonians/5-17.htm">1 Thessalonians 5:17</a> Pray without ceasing.</p><p class="hdg">and not.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/27-13.htm">Psalm 27:13</a> I believe to see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jonah/2-7.htm">Jonah 2:7</a> I went down to the lowest parts of the mountains: the bars of the earth have shut me up for ever: and thou wilt bring up my life from corruption, O Lord, my God.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../galatians/6-9.htm">Galatians 6:9</a> And in doing good, let us not fail. For in due time we shall reap, not failing.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hebrews/12-3.htm">Hebrews 12:3-5</a> For think diligently upon him that endured such opposition from sinners against himself that you be not wearied, fainting in your minds. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/luke/18.htm">The Persistent Widow</a></span><br> <span class="reftext">1</span><span class="highl">And he spoke also a parable to them, that we ought always to pray and not to faint,</span> <span class="reftext">2</span>Saying: There was a judge in a certain city, who feared not God nor regarded man.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/40-31.htm">Isaiah 40:31</a></span><br />But they that hope in the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall take wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/62-7.htm">Isaiah 62:7</a></span><br />And give him no silence till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../luke/11-5.htm">Luke 11:5</a></span><br />And he said to them: Which of you shall have a friend and shall go to him at midnight and shall say to him: Friend, lend me three loaves,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../luke/11-8.htm">Luke 11:8</a></span><br />Yet if he shall continue knocking, I say to you, although he will not rise and give him because he is his friend; yet, because of his importunity, he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/4-1.htm">2 Corinthians 4:1</a></span><br />Therefore seeing we have this ministration, according as we have obtained mercy, we faint not.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ephesians/6-18.htm">Ephesians 6:18</a></span><br />By all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the spirit: and in the same watching with all instance and supplication for all the saints:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/luke/15-31.htm">Always</a> <a href="/luke/17-25.htm">Behoveth</a> <a href="/luke/17-22.htm">Disciples</a> <a href="/luke/1-20.htm">Effect</a> <a href="/luke/17-24.htm">End</a> <a href="/mark/8-3.htm">Faint</a> <a href="/luke/15-7.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/luke/17-20.htm">Jesus</a> <a href="/luke/16-4.htm">Lose</a> <a href="/luke/16-19.htm">Making</a> <a href="/luke/13-16.htm">Ought</a> <a href="/luke/15-3.htm">Parable</a> <a href="/luke/11-1.htm">Prayer</a> <a href="/luke/17-14.htm">Show</a> <a href="/luke/15-3.htm">Simile</a> <a href="/luke/15-3.htm">Story</a> <a href="/luke/13-26.htm">Taught</a> <a href="/luke/13-6.htm">Telling</a> <a href="/luke/17-4.htm">Times</a> <a href="/mark/14-40.htm">Tired</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/luke/21-36.htm">Always</a> <a href="/luke/19-5.htm">Behoveth</a> <a href="/luke/18-15.htm">Disciples</a> <a href="/luke/21-22.htm">Effect</a> <a href="/luke/20-29.htm">End</a> <a href="/luke/21-26.htm">Faint</a> <a href="/luke/24-25.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/luke/18-15.htm">Jesus</a> <a href="/john/6-39.htm">Lose</a> <a href="/luke/18-35.htm">Making</a> <a href="/luke/24-26.htm">Ought</a> <a href="/luke/18-9.htm">Parable</a> <a href="/luke/18-10.htm">Prayer</a> <a href="/luke/20-21.htm">Show</a> <a href="/luke/19-11.htm">Simile</a> <a href="/luke/18-9.htm">Story</a> <a href="/luke/19-47.htm">Taught</a> <a href="/luke/22-64.htm">Telling</a> <a href="/luke/18-30.htm">Times</a> <a href="/luke/18-5.htm">Tired</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/luke/18-1.htm">Luke 18:1 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/luke/18-1.htm">Luke 18:1 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/luke/18-1.htm">Luke 18:1 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/luke/18-1.htm">Luke 18:1 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/luke/18-1.htm">Luke 18:1 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/luke/18-1.htm">Luke 18:1 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/luke/18-1.htm">Luke 18:1 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/luke/18-1.htm">Luke 18:1 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/luke/18-1.htm">Luke 18:1 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: a all always and at disciples give He heart his Jesus lose not Now ought parable pray should show telling that them Then they times to told up was<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/luke/18-1.htm">NT Gospels: Luke 18:1 He also spoke a parable to them (Luke Lu Lk) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools</a><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="/catholic/">Catholic Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../luke/17-37.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Luke 17:37"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Luke 17:37" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../luke/18-2.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Luke 18:2"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Luke 18:2" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#f7f7f7"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="8261988112"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 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