Thematic Bible: Importunity, examples of


Thematic Bible



But she said, “Yes, Lord; but even the dogs feed on the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”

I tell you, even though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will get up and give him as much as he needs.

yet because this widow bothers me, I will give her legal protection, otherwise by continually coming she will wear me out.’”





I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke Him to anger.


Then he said, “Oh may the Lord not be angry, and I shall speak only this once; suppose ten are found there?” And He said, “I will not destroy it on account of the ten.”


Then he said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.” But he said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”


Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.




The royal official *said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”


But she said, “Yes, Lord; but even the dogs feed on the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”

I tell you, even though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will get up and give him as much as he needs.

yet because this widow bothers me, I will give her legal protection, otherwise by continually coming she will wear me out.’”





I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke Him to anger.


Then he said, “Oh may the Lord not be angry, and I shall speak only this once; suppose ten are found there?” And He said, “I will not destroy it on account of the ten.”


Then he said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.” But he said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”


Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.




The royal official *said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”