Thematic Bible: Importunity, examples of


Thematic Bible



And she said, Yes, Lord, yet the little dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.

I say unto you, Though 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 needs.

yet because this widow troubles me, I will do her justice, lest by her continual coming she weary me.





And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water because of all your sins in which ye sinned in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.


And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once; peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.


And he said, Let me go, for the day breaks. And he said, I will not let thee go except thou bless me.


Elijah was a man subject to passions like unto ours, and he asked in prayer that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.




The nobleman said unto him, Sir, come down before my child dies.


And she said, Yes, Lord, yet the little dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.

I say unto you, Though 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 needs.

yet because this widow troubles me, I will do her justice, lest by her continual coming she weary me.





And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water because of all your sins in which ye sinned in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.


And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once; peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.


And he said, Let me go, for the day breaks. And he said, I will not let thee go except thou bless me.


Elijah was a man subject to passions like unto ours, and he asked in prayer that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.




The nobleman said unto him, Sir, come down before my child dies.